Question

When my app is loading data in an AsyncTask, it shows a splash screen. Sometimes this data loading takes under a second and sometimes it takes much longer. However I want to ensure that the splash is up for at least 2 seconds if the data loading finished first, or otherwise wait until the data was done.

My first solution was to use a Countdown Timer, and two boolean values. When the processes would start, their booleans would be set to true. When the process was done, it would set it’s boolean false. Then it would check if the other’s boolean was false, and if it was dismiss the splash.

While this works, I feel like it is overly complicated and was hoping to find a more efficient or better solution.

Answer 1

I want to ensure that the splash is up for at least 2 seconds if the
data loading finished first, or otherwise wait until the data was
done.

You can asyncronously start a Thread(Splash) and AsyncTask for Loading data and call the new Activity on onPostExecute() of you AsyncTask.