When leaving app then coming back to view, native textfields temporarily show up on black (non-existant) background

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#1

So forgive me for not knowing the terminology, but I’ll try my best to describe it. I’m testing on a galaxy tablet. 

My app has a bunch of textfields on a background. When the user hits the *tablet’s* right button (image of a rectangle sitting on top of the outline of a second rectangle) to escape the app (now the screen shows an outline menu of currently open applications), clicking on my app within this menu causes it to resume the app where you left off, but the textfields will immediately appear on a black background (instead of my background picture) and after a few seconds of delay, the images show up again.

     I’m not sure why this is happening, because everything has already been loaded and displayed well before even opening up this menu option. Any ideas on what’s going on or how to circumvent this?

Thanks

#2

Hi @Nate112,

I’m not sure there’s anything you can do about this. When an app suspends on Android, all textures are removed from memory. Then, when the app resumes, it has to reload them all again. That is likely why it takes a few seconds to show the images (whereas the native text fields are part of the “system’s UI” and are not suspect to this rule). This is the behavior of Android and I’m not aware of any solution.

Take care,

Brent

#3

Hi @Nate112,

I’m not sure there’s anything you can do about this. When an app suspends on Android, all textures are removed from memory. Then, when the app resumes, it has to reload them all again. That is likely why it takes a few seconds to show the images (whereas the native text fields are part of the “system’s UI” and are not suspect to this rule). This is the behavior of Android and I’m not aware of any solution.

Take care,

Brent