LOADING SCREENS >.<

How can they be made interesting…….

Creating an app for market like India can be a really difficult task, given the constraints of lower end smartphones presence and poor network speed. In such cases, avoiding loading screens can become a real challenge. If you waiting for a network call on 2G, then you might get a delay of as much as 4-5 seconds.

Now in these 5 sec of nothingness, you can either bore the user by showing loading image or you can educate him. The idea is so well used by a lot of games. While everything is loading, they keep things like story telling or tutorial sessions. FIFA lets you take penalty shootouts.

If used in the right way, these 5 seconds can be a real bond between the user and your app.