I am currently loading my game bitmaps when the user presses 'start' in my animated splash screen activity (the first / launch activity) and the app progresses from my this activity to the main game activity,

This is causing choppy animation in the splashscreen while it loads/creates the bitmaps for the new activity.

I've been told that I should load all my bitmaps in one go at the very beginning.

However, I can't work out how to do this - could anyone please point me in the right direction?

I have 2 activities, a splash screen and the main game. Each consist of a class that extends activity and a class that extends SurfaceView (with an inner class for the rendering / logic updating).

So, for example at the moment I am creating my bitmaps in the constructor of my SurfaceView class like so:

public class OptionsScreen extends SurfaceView implements
  SurfaceHolder.Callback {

      //Create variables here

 public OptionsScreen(Context context) {


Create bitmaps here
}

public void intialise(){                         //This method is called from onCreate() of corresponding application context

// Create scaled bitmaps here (from bitmaps previously created)

}