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[berryboy]

I'm sharing what I discovered with your team and developers for suggestion.
These weeks, I've worked on Evernote OAuth authentication of my iPhone app. Since the username/password authentication is going to be deprecated on the 1st November.

After move to OAuth, I can easily noticed that login page took very long time to load every time I launched the app.
So, I tested Evernote login page with a profiler (on computer) and this is what I discovered.

Loading javascript jQuery take 4 seconds and overall load time is almost 7 seconds. I had this test on coffee shop wifi, thus, I believed that it will be worse if the mobile apps are on unreliable network such as edge or 3G.

I think this is serious problem for third-party apps. Imagine that users launch an iPhone app for the first time, you require them to login, but they have to wait for login page (10+ seconds) before they can type anything.


PS. For comparison this's Facebook authentication page.

[magpoc]

Have there been any progress?
I also think this should be solved.
For the time being, I diddled the ENOAuthViewController.m to show a indicator while loading the web form.

1) Add a indicator property.

@property (nonatomic, retain) UIActivityIndicatorView *loadIndicator;
@synthesize loadIndicator = _loadIndicator;

2) Release the indicator in dealloc.

[_loadIndicator release];

3) Add two methods to show and hide the indicator at the center of the webView.

- (void)showIndicator
{
  UIActivityIndicatorView *indicator = [[UIActivityIndicatorView alloc] initWithActivityIndicatorStyle:UIActivityIndicatorViewStyleGray];
  indicator.center = CGPointMake(self.webView.bounds.size.width / 2, self.webView.bounds.size.height / 2);
  [self.webView addSubview:indicator];
  [indicator startAnimating];
  self.loadIndicator = indicator;
  [indicator release];
}

- (void)hideIndicator
{
  [_loadIndicator removeFromSuperview];
  self.loadIndicator = nil;
}

4)Call showIndicator in webViewDidStartLoad: and call hideIndicator in both webViewDidFinishLoad: and webView:didFailLoadWithError:
ENOAuthViewController is not implemented webViewDidStartLoad: and webViewDidFinishLoad: so I added these two delegate methods.

Of course this is not a fundamental solution and this way requires me to modify the original source code every time the SDK is updated.

[Martin Packer]

You'd have to wonder what jQuery was actually being used for - normally for web page manipulation. But finding some particular DOM Node might be doable without loading jQuery.