title: WebView, Splash Screen and performance
body: <p>I've got WebView within an Activity that loads content from the network. When the WebView starts loading I launch another activity to act as a Splash Screen that I hide when the WebView is done loading.</p>
  
  <p>I found out when testing that the same web page takes longer to load when I add a splash screen than when I don't. So I assume there's a network thread whose priority drops when the activity containing the WebView goes to the background. How do I control that thread to keep the WebView fast?</p>
  
  <p>I found the setRenderPriority method of the WebSettings class, I'm not sure what it does and I don't know what is the "Render thread" it talks about. I tried :</p>
  
  <pre><code>getSettings().setRenderPriority(WebSettings.RenderPriority.HIGH); 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but it didn't have any effect on the loading time.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks to anyone who can help me out.</p>