Speed up launch of activity containing mapview and extends MapviewActivity
<p>I have an app which contains an activity which is a MapviewActivity and is mostly a mapview.
However I have noticed that the start up time of the activity is really slow and causes a lag from the moment the button is pressed to go in to the map activity. I feel this creates a bad user experience and would like to avoid this.
I have already set the background of the map activity to <code>@null</code> as suggested by one of the UI improvement articles on googles developer page, which I feel does not do the trick.</p>

<p>Is there a way to improve this? I would not like the main home screen to get stuck on the launch of the activity, even a transfer to the map activity and then loading the mapview would be better.</p>

<p>Thanks,
Jason</p>
