BTW, I misplaced a }
That's all in the same onCreate() method.
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Miguel Morales <therevolti...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Well, to be honest you don't really need a splash screen.
> What is taking so long is that you are loading the images in the same
> thread as the UI thread.
> This makes it hang while you load your bitmaps. I'm surprised you're not
> getting an application not responding alert.
>
> What I do in my game is load bitmaps in a background thread.
> Simply show a progress dialog while the background thread loads the
> bitmaps. Then tell the UI thread that all the resources are ready to go.
>
> Something like:
>
> void onCreate() {
> Handler callbackHandler = new Handler() {
> @Override
> public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
> //all resources have been loaded...
> }
> }
>
> class MyThread extends Thread {
> Handler handler;
> MyThread(Handler cbHandler) {
> handler = cbHandler;
> }
> @Override
> public void run() {
> //load all the images here...
> handler.sendEmptyMessage(); //let the UI thread know we're
> done.
> }
> }
>
> //show progress dialog here...
> new MyThread(callbackHandler).start();
> }
>
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 11:57 AM, John Goche
> <johngoch...@googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> At last I was able to find this example...
>>
>> http://www.wglxy.com/android-tutorials/splash-screen-demo-app-for-android
>>
>> and code the following, which seems to work for a splash screen with
>> AsyncTask:
>>
>> public class GameActivity extends Activity {
>>
>> private Panel panel = null;
>>
>> class SplashTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Integer, Void> {
>>
>> GameActivity gameActivity;
>>
>> SplashTask(GameActivity gameActivity) {
>>
>> this.gameActivity = gameActivity;
>>
>> }
>>
>> @Override
>> protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {
>>
>> Looper.prepare();
>>
>> this.gameActivity.panel = new Panel(gameActivity);
>>
>> return null;
>>
>> }
>>
>> @Override
>> protected void onPostExecute(Void params) {
>>
>> setContentView(this.gameActivity.panel);
>>
>> }
>>
>> }
>>
>> class Panel extends SurfaceView implements SurfaceHolder.Callback {
>>
>> Context context;
>>
>> public Panel(Context context) {
>>
>> super(context);
>>
>> this.context = context;
>>
>> [...snip...]
>>
>>
>> @Override
>> public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
>>
>> super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
>>
>> setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);
>>
>> requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
>>
>> getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,
>> WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);
>>
>> setVolumeControlStream(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC);
>>
>> // panel = new Panel(this);
>>
>> // setContentView(panel);
>>
>> setContentView(R.layout.splash);
>>
>> new SplashTask(this).execute();
>>
>> PowerManager powerManager = (PowerManager)
>> getSystemService(Context.POWER_SERVICE);
>> wakeLock = powerManager.newWakeLock(PowerManager.FULL_WAKE_LOCK, TAG);
>>
>> wakeLock.acquire();
>>
>> }
>>
>> And yes, also in my manifest file:
>>
>> <activity
>> android:name=".GameActivity"
>> android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen"
>> ...
>>
>> Thank you for all your kind replies,
>>
>> As always, feedback welcome,
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> John Goche
>>
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