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Instant splash pages for iOS apps

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Re: Instant splash pages for iOS apps

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post #11

I was wondering what "splash page" means in this context.. I thought this app generates splash screens which are displayed when a mobile app starts up (not a good thing anyway). I would rather call it "presentation page" or "virtual flyer".

I thought iOS standards required an initial splash page? Or am I confusing this with a required loading page.

Re: Instant splash pages for iOS apps

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post #11

I was wondering what "splash page" means in this context.. I thought this app generates splash screens which are displayed when a mobile app starts up (not a good thing anyway). I would rather call it "presentation page" or "virtual flyer".

I thought iOS standards required an initial splash page? Or am I confusing this with a required loading page.

All iOS apps require a splash image (otherwise it's just a black screen while it spins up), but Apple strongly discourages using actual splash screens for this purpose: it's a very jarring experience, and also magnifies the apparent time between launch and ready states.

Instead the official recommendation is to make the splash image a stripped down version of your app's home screen - for an address book, this would be the main screen without any data, for example. This gives the app a more immediate feel, and also effectively hides a lot of the load time, since there is also no visible transition between the loading and ready states.

Of course, this is far from the reality of things - a lot of apps use splash screens for a variety of reasons, and most do not gracefully transition between splash and ready states (e.g., that empty address book splash screenshot will just magically pop into a ready view, instead of animating into said state).

Re: Instant splash pages for iOS apps

#40
Great site, I agree with the name change, I too was confused by it.

My app generated an error. I presume its because its not available in America (only UK):

App link: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/cycle-paths-for-british-isles...

Smore link: http://www.smore.com/app/gateway/appstore?source=http%3A%2F%...

Also it might be worth linking in the iTunes link generator: http://itunes.apple.com/linkmaker/

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