Boot sequence with splash screen in android application
<p>I have to change an existing application. I need to have the application start with a splash screen that is displayed while all sorts of initializing is done. (this may take a while, therefore the splash screen)</p>

<p>However what I see is that a content provider's onCreate is called before the onCreate of the application is invoked. This content provider must rely on data that is loaded at initializing the application. </p>

<p>Can anyone tell me which steps are taken when an application starts up?
Furthermore can anyone tell me how to overcome this catch-22 situation?</p>
