app homescreen slow to open - UX improvement

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app homescreen slow to open - UX improvement #452

Open xavierle opened 8 years ago

xavierle commented 8 years ago

this is more to tag as an improvement and isnot a bug issue

it is from feedback to several test users.

one of the first UX issue is that the main app screen is quite slow to appear.

if we compare to whatsapp or other xmpp messenger. vector android is full white during several seconds this give a lag impression long enough to think :

"next time i will go faster with blablabla app"

it seems matrix console have the same issue. i do not know if the sdk/api allows to change this easily

ylecollen commented 8 years ago

We need to improve the application storage.

We don't use a SQL lite store but a filesystem one because it was easier to implement first.

This filesystem store is quite slow to load at application launch.