Each time you open a course in the app, you have to wait for it to scroll through the list of levels, represented as planets.
If the connection is good then this is fairly quick, and rarely takes more than 2 seconds, if working off-line, or in a large course with many levels it can take 30 seconds until this actually starts after opening the course.
You cannot start revising, or anything else I think, before this scrolling has taken place - the buttons will still refer to the previous course you had open.
Now, I’m not questioning the efficiency of this (it’s not, in summary), but I wonder if I’m missing something in terms of functionality, ie what is the benefit of this, what does it enable me to do or help me with?
I’ve never seen this happen, at least, not in any way that has impacted my ability to use the app. What course does this happen on? What kind of device do you have, and what version of the app are you using?
I noticed similar. If I travel to place with bad internet (and when I say bad, I mean trip around time from 15000 to 40000 ms!), It takes indeed a long time. In those cases I sometimes even turn off the internet, because then the app will use the downloaded information and that is really fast. Even with a very good internet connection it takes about 4 seconds (I counted today; 20 levels with about 1000 items in total).
So that is what I can suggest: turn off the internet, and turn it back on later to have the App uploading the (learning) updates.
Any Benefit? I suppose it syncs the learning progress and updates to the course (but as said elsewhere the latter can take days before they appear, if ever). And I have seen yesterday that the number of words to review differed on the web and the Android App, even after I played around and it ‘updated’ itself. I know it updated itself because the number of words to reviewed in the app went down after revising all of them on the web; but not down to zero… strangely.
thanks for the feedback - I think the performance question is a different point entirely (and, to be honest, I’m not holding my breath for it being fixed anytime soon), but I would be really interested in understanding what purpose this animation serves for me as a learner - if it really is just whilst something is loaded/updated then something simpler and less elaborate would surely do the trick, and be less resource (and time?) intensive?