XCode Tutorial: Adding A Loading Screen To Your Apps

[Jdawgydude]

What are you, like 3!?

[SuperAwesomeWolf]

how would you do this for a mac application?

[sonnyhe2002]

Yay, I thumbs down.

[vettemaster77]

Random question, but how do you get that ripple cursor effect when you click on something?

[memo431]

YO, is that done in a view based or a tab bar? if you know anything about how to do it in a tab bar can you please send me a message

[phils2020]

wat did you make tht icon/logo in

[khomatov]

does not work on this device - iPhone 3Gs, iOS 4.2.1

[davyblue0123]

hey tried that but the code is different for some reason, has with options: NSDictionary... what is this about, can i remove it??

[amyersyaya]

hey have you made any apps that are in the app store?

i wanna check them out

[Jamie49]

yeah, this is a splash screen not a loading screen.

[LockerzSwagbucks]

Could I combine this tutorial with your animation tutorial so I could make an animated loading screen?

[bixlord]

how much have you won with your apps on the appstore?

[richifie]

@bixlord It's earning not winning.

[bixlord]

@richifie

win:

3. (tr) to succeed in or gain (something) with an effort.

Need I say more?

[kennedy9910]

does it have to be called Default?

[richifie]

@kennedy9910 No.

[songoty9582]

herp here's a good question for you, what does 'unsigned' mean?

i hate how user friendly stuff is these days, anyone and everyone is a "codar" now

[veswanx]

you're showing a basic splash screen with extended sleep time.

It will be cooler ,if you show these guys how to add the default loading circle , when there is a connection to the internet and loading actually occurs

[alexhollandmusic]

How does the Deligate.m know that when you enter sleep(5); that it is going to use the .PNG file? Mine just displays a black screen for 5 seconds instead.

[richifie]

@alexhollandmusic Go to your plist file and add a new column. Under the left side scroll down the possibilities and find launch image. Type in your filename in the right hand column.

[dannyIAD]

woooh, this vid make me sick dude..

[jacobh1995]

thanks!

[jaycreation]

Découvrez une liste des meilleurs tutoriels du net pour le developpement iPhone

[James161997]

Baby

[super0chick]

I've put your code on my app and it works except that when I close my app and start it again, the splash "Default.png" did not appear again. It went straight to my app. How do you make it appear again after the app closes.

[LeatherneckGames]

Thanks alot!

[ErwinPanganiban]

Tutorial was fine but its against apple dev practice and against any development practice to deliberately delay the launching of applications. The purpose of having a loading screen is to display something on the screen while all the project resources are initializing and loaded to the memory. If you are working with a big project that contains so many images, music files, or with heavy initialization, it will take a moment when it starts with a blank screen. Why would you add 5 sec more to load

[AppleIsMyGame]

@ErwinPanganiban Not its not, people do this all the time.

[ErwinPanganiban]

@AppleIsMyGame I know people do this but not all of them. Applications should load and run as fast as they can. If you want to show some information at the start about your app, DO NOT put sleep for 5 seconds without any user interruption. If I'm the user of the app and im in a hurry and want to skip the sleep time, that code of your will not work. It should have considered user interaction like "tap the screen if you want to skip the loading". Got it?

[AppleIsMyGame]

@ErwinPanganiban Then whats the point.?

[ErwinPanganiban]

@AppleIsMyGame The point is, your loading screen tutorial is not proper. It wont let me skip the added 5 second you added in the loading time. If the user frequently uses the app, do you want him/her to keep waiting for that 5 seconds even its not necessary anymore everytime the app startup? You could have instead put it in a loop and wait for tap until 5 seconds. Don't get so affected if i made my point. just accept that it's a correction to you tutorial. no offence buddy! :)

[jamesy012lego]

i want it to start at 6 seconds

you said "say i want it to start at 6 seconds" so i did =D

[webguysd]

That was too easy. Thanks!

[lukewfilms]

how can you make one for a mac app

[fipsfoxy]

doh, at first playing around with xcode i thought DAMN how easy it looks

now i realize you have to be a rocket scientist to do even basic stuff :D

[iGamrah]

@fipsfoxy  dude , your Right That What i thought of Xcode Too!

[ramentasteawesome]

Iphone programs are gay

[geniousmac]

ur gay hahah lol JK

nah they are cool.

[ramentasteawesome]

You would probley invent something like the pizza hut ordering program for iphone

[glych002]

It did not work with your UIwebVew tutorial.

[geniousmac]

yeah same with me.

[drunkensilvermonkey]

@dantem008 you need to name it Default.png

[wasd591]

@dantem008 isn't that the same thing D:

[ProductionFH]

I cant see mine, its just black!

[iphonebram]

can you also ad a (short) movie?

[jaystech]

how??

[alnandr]

This really helped alot. Thanks man :)

[MatthewGuizzetti]

Hey man awesome vids keep it up.

one question, where do I find the project folder?

[SimpleSDK]

Its the folder with all the xcode projects files.

[SimpleSDK]

Search your app in spotlight and youll see a folder. thats it

[fantasticatif]

@MatthewGuizzetti

Does she sound like man voice

[thekmanzz]

@fantasticatif

Sounds like 12 year old boy, but thats just me, im used to hearing squeaky 12 year olds on youtube. You never know.

[LukeLikeLife]

So it isn't a loading screen, it's an image that you set to display for any number of seconds. Great... your other tutorials are better.

[TwitchsBrew]

It's a good way to advertise something under the guise of loading. ;-)

[Meshug18]

Do u have any videos that combine these and that can help me make a substantial app?

[livewithdavid]

It would be nice if you knew how to make it fade out, nice tut none the least!

[A23Angelo]

buddy iam doing everything u said.....i got it once but it doent work for me anymore...plzz help

[thinkaboutitadam]

OMG thank you sooo much again!!!

[cvogel4]

how to put on the icon i cant figure it out

[SimpleSDK]

well that depends on your image software.

[cvogel4]

i watched your other video and it worked you have awesome vids. Your guidlines help me develope my first app?

[cvogel4]

i watched your other video and it worked you have awesome vids. Your guidlines help me develope my first app?

[cvogel4]

Also i have a qestion how to you put the app on your iphone to test it?

[SimpleSDK]

The most common question. Only people who've signed up with the program may put it on. however im making a way to get around this. Just wait.

[richifie]

@SimpleSDK MAKING a way to get around it?

[username12131415]

@cvogel4 You have to make it so it doesn't code sign. It was hard to figure out, but now i know and its really easy.

If you have already figured it out, just ignore this. If you still have questions, message me.

[SgtGarand]

@cvogel4 I went into the info.plist and in the box labeled "Icon file" just type the name of the image, including the file type. Just make sure the image file is added in with your resources. I'm not sure exactly what size you need it to be if you want the whole image to be shown. But in the app I'm working on it focused around the center of the image, which looked pretty cool, so I left it.

[Varney2012]

Hey when you have a background named "Default.png" you cannot add a loading screen becuase thers already a .png named "default". So what do i name it?

[SimpleSDK]

Did you follow my Hello world tutorial? well, i know, your gonna have to rename it and go back into interface builder and change the UIImageView to the same image with a new name. Got it?

[iPhoneSDKDeveloper]

how do you make the shine on the image? and how do you create the black background? which software?

[SimpleSDK]

Use GIMP, Photoshop, or Fireworks. The shine was in Fireworks.

[iPhoneSDKDeveloper]

oh thanks but how do you make the curves on the image?

[iPhoneSDKDeveloper]

ok i know how to do the curves but what option is in fireworks to make the shine? can you tell me.

[SimpleSDK]

Actually, you see the background of the icon part? that was already there. it was a style

[iPhoneSDKDeveloper]

what style was it, can you help me?

[michiganboy10]

nice tutorial, maybe teach how to make the dots animate?

[phatee303]

is it me or does the baby background make this tutorial a little creepy