Add splashscreen to habdroid

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1. Feature Description
It would be nice if the Android UI could also show some splash screen.

2. Example Use Case
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3. Implementation
My implementation is in my habdroid clone here:
https://code.google.com/r/hlw31de-habdroid/source/browse , Changes 050c41113dcb 
and 79c24fec0a6b

Please review and pull to official :)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by hlw31...@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2013 at 10:11

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I don't think that a splash screen makes sense here. Generally splash screens 
are a bad decision on Android and one should consider using them very very 
carefully. There are only very few cases where a splash screen makes sense 
(games, apps with heavy background work on startup).
Since HABDroid has no heavy lifting to do a splash screen would probably be 
more harmful. HABDroid and other applications like it should be designed to be 
fast accessible. Delaying the start of the app unnecessary long would work 
against a fast and easy accesibility.
Ultimately it is Victors choice if he wants a splash screen, but I would advise 
against it, except all the sitemap loading and parsing is moved to a background 
service enabling you to do work on the splachscreen.

Original comment by till.klo...@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2013 at 10:43

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I fully agree but eye-candy sometimes matters too.

Moving connection and initial parsing to a splash screen should be step two and 
absolutely makes sense.

Nevertheless, I hope to find this feature in the long-run. Thanks for your 
comment!

Original comment by hlw31...@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2013 at 10:53

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I would tend to agree with Till here - HABDroid is usually very fast in startup 
and a splash screen would be rather disturbing. Also, checking my Android apps, 
hardly any of them uses a splash screen, so this does not seem to be a 
"standard" feature. Especially as you usually want to do something quickly when 
starting HABDroid, every additional waiting time is annoying.

@Victor: I assign it to you to take the final decision on this request :-)

Original comment by kai.openhab on 24 Jun 2013 at 11:36

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I continuously analyse HABDroid usage patterns and a typical pattern is 1-2 
sitemap pages with session lenght of less then 1 minute. So I continuously work 
on minimising HABDroid startup time for all use cases, so I would reject this 
request. Sorry. For 99.99% of users this will make experience worser ...

Original comment by belovic...@gmail.com on 22 Jul 2013 at 6:36

• Changed state: Rejected