play movie file during iphone application startup(i.e during application loading)

Question

I want to play a movie file or any animation file till the time application not loaded completely.
Is there any simple way to do it?

Answer 1

You have to think carefully about if you really want to do this. On a hardware limited device, loading a movie is going to increase load times, not reduce them as should be your goal. Even the Default.png method is meant as a way to indicate the application is loading and reduce the perceived load time to the user; it's not intended as a splash screen or eye candy.

If your application does have a very long operation during load that you absolutely can't avoid before showing a functional UI, I think the best bet might be to whip up a quick 'loading' animation using Core Animation layers. Maybe there's a better way to do it but in my experience loading the movie player takes time.