Yeah, every time. But so far, it hasn't been as distracting/annoying as I feared it might be. Seems like the eyes get used to the flicker of the splash-screen and stop registering it after a while, much like website visitors have by now been "trained" to automatically ignore all blinking banners.
I certainly hope it will be possible to split the iPad screen between two apps in a future version of iOS.
That said, Andy, the content displayed by the Lingvo window is typically so rich that a pop-up bubble wouldn't hold all (or even most) of it, anyway. Especially if you instruct Lingvo to display
both a
definition, and a
translation of the word you're looking up, from
two different dictionaries at the same time, which is a
great Lingvo feature. You'd have to be
scrolling a lot within the pop-up bubble, which isn't optimal, either.
And, that iOS dictionary pop-up bubble exists only on the iPad, whereas it's a separate screen on the iPhone, much like the Lingvo screen now in Marvin.
I believe the Kindle app is the smartest when it comes to displaying dictionary definitions. They always appear at the very bottom or at the very top of the screen, and you tap them if you wish to read the entire definition. If Kris could emulate that with Marvin/Lingvo/any 3rd-party dictionary app in future, that would be great.
My bigger concern is the return from Lingvo to Marvin. I'm fine with the 4-finger slide gesture on the iPad, but it's not available on the iPhone. I'm afraid I'll have to jailbreak the iPhone just to be able to use that gesture there as well. The alternative for returning from Lingvo to Marvin on the iPhone would be pressing the physical Home button and then the Marvin icon on the home screen manually every time, but I suspect that can quickly get annoying.