Best way to load game resources

Question

I'm making an android game using andengine and I was wondering which is the best way to load game resources:
1) Load all resources at the beginning (during splash screen maybe)
or
2) Load a specific resource when you need it?

Answer 1

The way I do it:

There are few resources I load in the beginning when my game starts:

1) The Font objects 2) The Sound and Music objects

I think loading all resources at the beginning depends on what game you got, if it has many levels and many images etc I advice you to load resources for a specific level during the 'loading' scene that will be 1-3 seconds before your level starts(For example you could create a beautiful Loading bar).

If you want a good tutorial on how to manage your scenes and your resources, I advice you to follow this link, it explains everything and it is a good base to manage your game.

Full game tutorial(Resource and Scenes management)

Hope it helps

Answer 2

use this link. which help to load dynamically all resources

Andengine dynamically load resources