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Im wrapping a html5 website in a native app. The app splash screen appears for a sec then a white page appears, I decided to add an image view that have the same image as the splash screen to fill this white screen and I hide this intermediate image once the websites download all the jquery and CSS. However, this screen lasts for really long time (up to 30 sec.) so I thought that it may be due to the jquery and CSS large buddle downloading time. So create a page which has and image and a redirect js(non library) statement and found that redirects so fast. I cannot understand why, anybody have an explanation

Matto
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That's the expected behaviour when attaching a web view

nunogoncalves
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  • What you can do is add a progress bar or a spinner so it can be more user friendly, but that white screen means it's downloading stuff from the web – nunogoncalves Jul 24 '12 at 16:15
  • I actually added a spinner and also an image that hides when the web view finishes loading. But how to add a progress bar. Web view does not give any info about how much percentage it did load as far as I know, am I mistaking here? – Matto Jul 25 '12 at 05:50
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You may want to consider that your app plans may run afoul of App Store guidelines:

Apple can reject mobile web shell apps.

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Cameron Lowell Palmer
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  • I found that if you provide html5 website that is useful, and look like an app, they accept it. I made my menu system look like the iOS menu system and they passed it through. Thanks for the advice. – Matto Sep 11 '12 at 06:47
  • Getting through once doesn't mean they won't take a different stance later. We encountered problems with subscriptions, but the lesson is the same. Just because Apple accepted it once doesn't mean they won't enforce the rule strictly later. – Cameron Lowell Palmer Sep 11 '12 at 07:11
  • You are definitely right! They might take different stance later but for now they accepting my applications in which I simple use a wrapper for html5 mobile site. I like this approach because of the great flexibility html5 gives in updating the look and feel. – Matto Sep 26 '12 at 02:59