 <p>When user launch the application you could show a splash screen for 1 or 2 second after that you could show the progress (status) of your application using text msg.</p> <p>for example "Initialization of Synchronization Service" ,"Storing to data base", "Loading map" .</p> <p>The above text msg. is just a reference,you could have more descriptive text to show on screen along with progress bar.</p>