Add "intermediary" page prior to full page load Angular - angularjs

Question

My problem
I am using Angular to create a Phonegap application. Most of my pages are fairly small and the transition/responsiveness is quick and smooth. However I have one page that is fairly large that I am having an issue with.
The method for changing to this page is straightforward:
<button ng-click="$location.url('/page2')"></button>
When you "tap" the button above it takes about 1-2s to respond and change pages. I have double checked all areas for improvement on this page and determined that the delay is caused by Angular compiling and parsing the DOM of this page prior to changing the page. Please note that I am testing this on a real device so it is not due to emulator speeds.
The question
Is there a way to automatically or manually intercept page changes and put them in a sort of "loading" page so the response to the button click is immediate and page change is visible but the page content loads in a second or 2 later onto this "loading" page.
Its only an issue cause it is very awkward to click something and have nothing happen. I am having a very hard time finding any resources on this matter so if someone can even point me in the right direction to look I would be grateful.
Edit:
A super hacky solution I found was to use an ng-include on wrapper page and delay the include for a little bit.
myBigPageWrapper.html:
<div ng-include="page"></div>
Controller:
$scope.page = '';
setTimeout(function() { $scope.page='/pages/myBigPage.html'; $scope.$apply(); }, 1000);
Then navigate to your wrapper page instead: $location.url('/myBigPageWrapper')
This is obviously not ideal... But I hope this helps clarify what I am attempting to do.
Page2.html
This is the section that causes the page to slow down, commenting this out makes the page load very quickly. There are 13 pages in the "auditPages" array each containing about 50 lines of html mostly containing form input elements. Quite a bit of logic however it runs great once it is loaded. I am not going to include all the pages as it would be overload.
<div class="page-contents">
<form name="auditPageForm">
<div ng-repeat="(pageKey, pageData) in auditPages " ng-show="currentAuditPage.name==pageData.name">
<audit-form page="pageData">
<ng-include src=" 'partials/audit/auditSections/'+pageData.name+'.html'" onload="isFormValid(pageKey)"></ng-include>
</audit-form>
</div>
</form>
</div>

Answer 1

To sum up my comments above:
Your question was:
Is there a way to automatically or manually intercept page changes and
put them in a sort of "loading" page?
A lot of people asks for this question since Angular doesn't seem to provide a nice handling of a loading transition.
Indeed, the possible nicest solution would have been to "play" with the resolve property of angular's module configuration.
As we know, resolve allows to run some logic before the targeted page is rendered, dealing with a promise. The ideal would be to be able to put a loading page on this targeted page, while the resolve code is running.
So some people have nice ideas like this one:
Nice way to handle loading icon while route is changing
He uses $routeChangeStart event, so the loading icon would happen on the SOURCE page.
I use it and it works well.
Also, there is another way: make use of $http interceptor (like #oori answer above), to have a common code allowing to put a loading icon but...I imagine you don't want the same icon on every kind of http request the page does, it's up to you.
Maybe in the future, a solution would come directly associated to the resolve property.

Answer 2

Angular has $httpProvider.responseInterceptors
// Original by zdam: http://jsfiddle.net/zdam/dBR2r/
angular.module('LoadingService', [])
.config(['$httpProvider', function ($httpProvider) {
$httpProvider.responseInterceptors.push('myHttpInterceptor');
var spinnerFunction = function (data, headersGetter) {
angular.element(document.getElementById('waiting')).css('display','block');
return data;
};
$httpProvider.defaults.transformRequest.push(spinnerFunction);
}])
// register the interceptor as a service, intercepts ALL angular ajax http calls
.factory('myHttpInterceptor', ['$q','$window', function ($q, $window) {
return function (promise) {
return promise.then(function (response) {
angular.element(document.getElementById('waiting')).css('display','none');
return response;
}, function (response) {
angular.element(document.getElementById('waiting')).css('display','none');
return $q.reject(response);
});
};
}])