My experience is that the scripting approach can cut the setup time from a day to an hour.
As the book illustrates, there is a lot of boiler-plate code required in order to setup timers and determine the current progress of the animation.
Mobile phones with packet-switched communication appear to be" always connected" to the data network, whereas in the case of circuit-switched connections, setup time takes around30 seconds to connect from a mobile phone to an ISP.