Splash screen in Android

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  December 2012

  @petec, well that's easy to solve. Ask for a refund
  
  Kidding, one Android splash screen tutorial coming up. Static image or framed animation?

  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• mefisto Member

  December 2012

  Have a look this post http://li229-214.members.linode.com/forum/discussion/comment/7771

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• petec Member

  December 2012

  @ar2rsawseen, a refund would be one way! It's just a static image that I'm trying to do but so far with no real success.
  
  @mefisto Thanks for the link - I'll take a look.
  
  For info, I'm using scenemanager in the app and have tried making a simple scene for the splash screen, but where I get stuck is in getting that screen to load and show before the other files are loaded, so I still get quite a lot of black screen to look at until the app appears.

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  December 2012 edited December 2012

  @petec, yes scene manager also needs a GL view to load, so its not really an option.
  See if you'll find anything helpful here:
  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile/Animated-splash-screen-for-android-in-Gideros

  Likes: mefisto

  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• atilim Maintainer

  December 2012 edited December 2012 Accepted Answer

  @petec maybe you can do this:
  
  1. First only load your "loading" image or logo and put it on the stage.
  2. Wait for 1 enter frame event
  3. Load all of your other assets
  

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytorus

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• atilim Maintainer

  December 2012 edited December 2012

  @ar2rsawseen whoa. when did you?

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytorus

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• atilim Maintainer

  December 2012 edited December 2012

  @ar2rsawseen I think you've decompiled the Lua files of Mashballs and looked at their implementation. You won't be able to do this anymore :P
  

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytorus

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  December 2012

  I've been meaning to share this for some time, just was waiting for specific occasion
  
  @atilim ) yes that's exactly how it's implemented in Mashballs, simple copy paste

  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• petec Member

  December 2012

  @petec maybe you can do this:
  
  1. First only load your "loading" image or logo and put it on the stage.
  2. Wait for 1 enter frame event
  3. Load all of your other assets
  

  Sorry if this is a simple question, but I've only let everything load by itself before, so I'm not sure how I stop things from loading while I wait for an enter frame event. Do I have to exclude lua files from execution? If so, how do I then get them to execute when I'm ready for them?
  Thanks
  Pete
  

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• petec Member

  December 2012

  @ar2rsawseen", thanks for that link. I'm going to play with that and see how I get on.

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• petec Member

  December 2012

  Ah, 'require' seems to call up the excluded files. Getting warmer....

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• petec Member

  December 2012

  Yay! I now have my splash screen. I used the method that @atilim described. many thanks.

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