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Activity indicator/spinner during load screen ... possible?

Discussion in 'iOS and tvOS' started by DaveyJJ, Sep 13, 2011.

  1. DaveyJJ

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    Is it possible to modify AppDelegate to show Apple's default activity indicator/spinner during the static background load/default scene? I'm concerned that with the project I've started working on I'm going to run into Apple's stopwatch issue (again) and it'll close before fully loading. Showing the activity indicator placates Apple in this regard to some degree. Thanks.
     
    DaveyJJ, Sep 13, 2011
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  2. Alexey

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    We did that for 3.5. On the other hand it required some tweaking of native code, so it may be not that easy for you. On the other hand you can wait ;-)
     
    Alexey, Sep 13, 2011
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  3. hippocoder

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    Alexey, can you make apple's spinner available for if I do resources.load as well? it would be very valuable to me (optionally of course).
     
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  4. Alexey

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    working on it. I can't promise anything as of now, but we want to give script access to it - so you can start it whenever you want
     
    Alexey, Sep 13, 2011
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    Thanks Alexey, very kind :)
     
    hippocoder, Sep 14, 2011
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  6. DaveyJJ

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    Thanks Alexey, that's good to know. Is that tweaking of native code only in the AppDelegate.h or .m file in the loading functions (that might be attemptable by me after Unity has spit out the build) or something more involved?
     
    DaveyJJ, Sep 14, 2011
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  7. Alexey

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    it is actual tweaking in unity source (not trampoline).
    On the other hand - you *can* do it yourself - it is just lot of code to add - you need to
    1. display your own splash screen
    2. start activity indicator
    3. skip at least one frame so ios have chance to actually start it (process even queue)
    4. only then call unity loading function
    I'm hesitant to provide source code itself as it is deviated from 3.4 considerably, but you should be able to do it yourself if you really want ;-)
     
    Alexey, Sep 14, 2011
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