Create a one-time splash screen for initial start-up

[esbullington]

As requested, tshirtman, I'm writing this idea up. It might be a good idea to develop a one-time splash screen to display for the initial start-up, with a loading graphic and text saying something like "Completing initial installation".

Then, the normal splash screen would be displayed on subsequent start-ups.

This is a relatively low-tech way of making the initial start-up more user friendly. Although I realize the implementation could be tricky. One possibility is a launcher application. See the 4th response below:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1103027/how-to-change-an-application-icon-programmatically-in-android

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[tito]

I agreed to have the loading screen, like a boot loading screen. I tried to do it one hour, but never finished.
Why do you want to change the icon? It can stay the same during the whole app execution: you already have --icon parameter in build.py.

So only adding a progress bar on the loading screen would be ok: Give the ability to set the position/size/color of the progress bar via a config file/xml that can be generated by build.py, placed into the assets, and used by python-for-android.

[esbullington]

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I don't want to change the icon. What I should have said was to include a graphic on the splash screen indicating that it's loading, like a spinner:

http://blog.james-irwin.com/2008/03/ajax-loader.html

Or a progress bar. It really doesn't matter which one. Just something to indicate to people that the initial start-up is completing the installation (since it's unpacking files).

Then, you show the normal splash screen on subsequent start-ups. Whichever one the user indicates, or the default.

[ghost]

I really like this idea. Maybe I'll get a chance to look at it some time soon, since I'm already poking around build.py right now