Loading time

hassan

Hello,

I am developing an application that uses lot of (small) mp3/png files. The loading time seems to be very long while testing in Gideros Player.
I also tested on Android phone using APK installer, the loading time is too long.
Is there any way to use background loading after the application is opened?

Where are the best practice in this case.

Thank you

MoKaLux

hassan what do you mean by loading time?

hassan said:

...The loading time seems to be very long while testing in Gideros Player...

I am currently working on a game which has thousands of pngs and testing in Gideros Player is very fast (loading on android is also quite fast). Gideros Player will (should) load only new added assets otherwise it uses a "cache" for assets which have already been loaded.

We need to know what you are doing with the mp3 and png. Are you using images as decoration for your app?, do you use any animation (tweening)?, do you use timers?; ...

In my case pngs are just to decorate the levels and a bit of animations too. I tried using https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/TexturePack and the loading time was indeed very long so I removed it for now.

hassan said:

...Is there any way to use background loading after the application is opened?...

https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Texture.loadAsync ?

hassan said:

Where are the best practice in this case.

In my case I was using ECS but it turned out to be very slow for my use case, now I am using classic OOP and it is already much faster.

hassan

Thank you @MoKaLux
I didn't put the app on google store yet, I was just wondering if all the files need to be loaded before showing the first frame.
But from what I understand, this is just related to the Player..
The app is to teach Arabic, it display the image and say how it's pronounced, I will share the link when it's published.

Thank you for your help.

MoKaLux

hassan I am working on arabic apps as well
https://mokalux.itch.io/mkgi-arab-mdmt1 (once loaded you may need to refresh the browser page)
https://mokalux.itch.io/mkgi-ballade-arabe

I can share the code, just let me know.

pie

hassan said:

Thank you @MoKaLux
I didn't put the app on google store yet, I was just wondering if all the files need to be loaded before showing the first frame.
But from what I understand, this is just related to the Player..

The delay should happen only the first time you run the app because gideros has to send thousands of small files to your phone: you can see the uploading progress (to |R|folder) in the output panel at the bottom of Gideros studio editor.

Then each file should be loaded when you call it inside your app (ie. Sound.new("file.mp3") ) I don't think it checks if the file exists before that.