Apps Splash Screen and main activity

[Tolen]

Hi there,
I have written a code that stores all the videos for a certain playlist from YouTube in my database, now I want to design a button that checks if there is an updates on that playlist, for example: added video, deleted video,...and so on.
I want a splash screen to be displayed when checking if update occurred or not.
Now I have my splash screen displayed but when it finishes I want to return from where I left from my main activity not to the beginning of my main activity.
I had my splash screen in its on activity.
any help please!!

 

[steve]

A "splash screen" is more used on app loading. If you're already in the app and want to get updates from the server... using a visual indicator such as a progress dialog fragment or a horizontal progress bar on the actionbar. For a nice user experience you want this to be as painful as possible to the user.

A good way to do this would be to update in the background and then notify the user there are new items (or notifyChange on your adapter).

Does this sound right or am I missing your point?