> This looks to the user like the app actually starting, but what they've really done is buy themselves several seconds of load time.
I don't know what's so bad about that. We (programmers) have been doing this stuff since beginning of time. Caching is nothing different than what he describes and calls it deceptive.
As long as there's an impression of speed and the user doesn't actually feel like he's waiting too long everything is fine.
For our current project we render views into images and animate transitions between those images and not the views itself. Only to make it look more smooth and speedy. And I still can sleep at night :)
I don't know what's so bad about that. We (programmers) have been doing this stuff since beginning of time. Caching is nothing different than what he describes and calls it deceptive.
As long as there's an impression of speed and the user doesn't actually feel like he's waiting too long everything is fine.
For our current project we render views into images and animate transitions between those images and not the views itself. Only to make it look more smooth and speedy. And I still can sleep at night :)