All,
Looking for a way to make a timer fire the "OnTimerEnd" event early. The problem I am trying to solve: I have created a loading screen that pre-loads all data into Collections, and also checks the app version against a remote share point list in order to verify they are running the latest version and forcing them to update if they are not. Right now this process can take anywhere between 1-3 seconds depending on connectivity from a mobile device. I have 5 second timer that navigates to the home screen upon Timer End.
However, this app may be opened many times each day and I'd like to configure it so that instead of having to wait the full 5 seconds, if load finishes after 1 second it goes ahead to the main screen to save my users some time throughout the day and make it more user friendly.
I've tried the following:
1. I had two timers, one for my full load time and one that checked every 750ms to see if the conditions had been met and if they had to go to the load screen. The "early detection" timer was set to auto pause. However, I ran into an issue where when the condition would be met and the user would navigate to the main screen the timer would continue to run in the background even though auto pause was selected. This meant if a user selected a button from the main screen it would load that screen and then immediately navigate to the home screen again (each time the timer was firing the OnTimerEnd event).
Setting it to auto pause or setting an update context variable and placing that in the "start" field of each timer did not seem to resolve this. (Interesting note, this didn't occur on the web player, only on mobile version).
Any ideas on how to accomplish what I'm trying to do?
