Appgyver Steroids splashscreen linger duration

Question

Before I knew the existence of AppGyver Steroids, I was building an app with PhoneGap, everything was going on smoothly. Recently, I tried to use AppGyver Steroids to build my app, so I ported the project from PhoneGap to Steroids following the official guide found on the web. I could successfully debug my app on my MacBook afterwards, no problems at all.

I have created an app with AppGyver Steroids that shows a Microsoft Bing Map with several hundred pushpins attached. When I wanted to test it on my Samsung Galaxy S2, I deployed it to the cloud and built the apk file with the Ad Hoc version. Most of the build settings are left as default.

Later, when I install it on my device and run it, the default "AppGyver" splashscreen lingered for around 15 seconds or longer before the Bing Map showed up.

I would like to know:

• if there are any ways to adjust the duration of showing the splashscreen
• the reason of such a long loading time if this is not a "setting-related" issue

Answer 1

I have found the same problem on a Samsung Galaxy Ace 2, running Android 4.1. However, on a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini, the splashscreen disappears much quicker, after around 5 seconds. The steroids native code is not public so it is difficult/impossible to find the source of this problem without asking Appgyver staff, but in any case they are working on a new Android client which will almost certainly fix this kind of thing. I think unfortunately it's a case of hang tight... if you want to try asking the Appgyver staff they are usually very responsive: http://forums.appgyver.com/