Bloom flashes green on launch

[ara4n]

Steps to reproduce

• When the app launches, the avatar hasn’t loaded yet
• Therefore the default avatar is shown, and you see a flash of green (or similar) bloom for about 200ms:

Outcome

What did you expect?

• Cache my avatar
• Cache the bloom

What happened instead?

Weird green flash.

Your phone model

No response

Operating system version

No response

Application version

388

Homeserver

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Will you send logs?

No

[Velin92]

Maybe we should delay the appearence of the bloom by half a second (since even if you are not connected we have the avatar image cached so it wlll definitely appear after half a second) and then make the bloom fade in as it does right now?
@janogarcia

I will also see if I can preload the cached image so that it displays immediately, without slowing the UI

[janogarcia]

@Velin92 Preferably, preload the cached image avatar. We may still need to update the avatar at some point after syncing if the user happened to change her avatar while the client was offline.

If preloading is not feasible (I hope it is) and we need to introduce a delay as a fallback, then please only perform it on initial load/sync, making sure we don't introduce it on regular transitions (e.g., going from a room back to the room list). 👍

[ara4n]

it would be a super hacky bodge to put in a sleep rather than cache the avatar correctly... to be clear, the flash lasts for at least 100 milliseconds already