Thanks very much, this is exactly what I needed. Using traceview I
found an old custom method that I forgot about that was easily
replaced with a call to much faster API methods. Now the startup is
very fast.

Thanks again,
Matt

On Jan 4, 12:50 pm, Al <[email protected]> wrote:
> Have you tried profiling your app to see what takes so long? Have a
> look 
> athttp://code.google.com/android/reference/android/os/Debug.html#startM...)
>
> On Jan 3, 6:49 pm, Matt Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
>
> > I have an app that is around 3.8 megs, with a lot of that size being
> > png graphics. When I install the apk on the device the first run of
> > the app takes a very long time, around 30 seconds. After that first
> > run the startup is nearly instant. Is there something I can do to
> > speed that first run up? Is this something a user would experience
> > when downloading the app from the marketplace?
>
> > As a side note, I'm using the build.xml as generated by
> > createactivity.py to build and install the apk.
>
> > Thanks for any assistance.
> > Matt
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