Not showing Main Activity after Splash screen

Question

I under stand the thousand of people saying "don't use a splash," I get it, but the app is not that big, I just want to know what I am doing wrong I think it is something with my Manifest but after my splash shows and when its supposed to go to main page, I get error "Sorry! The Application Grifball (process com.grifball.info) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.

Here is my Manifest.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.grifball.info"
android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0" >

<uses-sdk
    android:minSdkVersion="8"
    android:targetSdkVersion="8" />

<application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >

     <activity android:name="Splash">
                    <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>       
    <activity
        android:name="MainActivity"
        android:label="@string/app_name" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="com.grifball.info.MAINACTIVITY" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

</application>

</manifest>

Here is my Splash's Java

package com.grifball.info;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class Splash extends Activity{

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle startup) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    super.onCreate(startup);
    setContentView(R.layout.splash);

    Thread timer = new Thread(){

        public void run(){

            try{
                sleep(5000);
            }catch(InterruptedException e){
                e.printStackTrace();
            }finally{
                Intent openMainActivity = new Intent("com.grifball.info.MAINACTIVITY");
                startActivity(openMainActivity);
            }
        }

    };
    timer.start();
}

}

Here is the XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" 
    android:background="@drawable/splashbg">


</LinearLayout>

Here is my Log Cat

04-03 02:39:20.527: D/AndroidRuntime(318): Shutting down VM
04-03 02:39:20.527: W/dalvikvm(318): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4001d800)
04-03 02:39:20.537: E/AndroidRuntime(318): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
04-03 02:39:20.537: E/AndroidRuntime(318): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.grifball.info/com.grifball.info.MainActivity}: java.lang.RuntimeException: native typeface cannot be made
04-03 02:39:20.537: E/AndroidRuntime(318):  at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2663)
04-03 02:39:20.537: E/AndroidRuntime(318):  at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2679)
04-03 02:39:20.537: E/AndroidRuntime(318):  at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2300(ActivityThread.java:125)
04-03 02:39:20.537: E/AndroidRuntime(318):  at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2033)
04-03 02:39:20.537: E/AndroidRuntime(318):  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
04-03 02:39:20.537: E/AndroidRuntime(318):  at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
04-03 02:39:20.537: E/AndroidRuntime(318):  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627)
04-03 02:39:20.537: E/AndroidRuntime(318):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
04-03 02:39:20.537: E/AndroidRuntime(318):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
04-03 02:39:20.537: E/AndroidRuntime(318):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:868)
04-03 02:39:20.537: E/AndroidRuntime(318):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:626)
04-03 02:39:20.537: E/AndroidRuntime(318):  at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
04-03 02:39:20.537: E/AndroidRuntime(318): Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: native typeface cannot be made
04-03 02:39:20.537: E/AndroidRuntime(318):  at android.graphics.Typeface.<init>(Typeface.java:147)
04-03 02:39:20.537: E/AndroidRuntime(318):  at android.graphics.Typeface.createFromAsset(Typeface.java:121)
04-03 02:39:20.537: E/AndroidRuntime(318):  at com.grifball.info.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:27)
04-03 02:39:20.537: E/AndroidRuntime(318):  at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
04-03 02:39:20.537: E/AndroidRuntime(318):  at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2627)
04-03 02:39:20.537: E/AndroidRuntime(318):  ... 11 more

Answer 1

Give the below code a try, it should work.

public class Splash extends Activity {

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState){
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    setTheme(android.R.style.Theme_Light_NoTitleBar);
    setContentView(R.layout.splash);

    Handler handler = new Handler();

    handler.postDelayed(new Runnable(){
        public void run(){

            finish();
            Intent intent = new Intent(Splash.this, MainActivity.class);
            Splash.this.startActivity(intent);
        }
    }, 2000);
}

}

Answer 2

You have to make the following changes

<activity android:name=".Splash">
                <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

        <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
    </intent-filter>
</activity>       
<activity
    android:name=".MainActivity"
    android:label="@string/app_name" >

</activity>

finally{
            Intent openMainActivity = new Intent(Splash.this, MainActivity.class);
            startActivity(openMainActivity);

Answer 3

In the "AndroidManifest.xml", you should change this:

<action android:name="com.grifball.info.MAINACTIVITY" />

To This:

<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAINACTIVITY" />

And, in "Splash.java", you should change:

Intent openMainActivity = new Intent("com.grifball.info.MAINACTIVITY");

To this:

Intent openMainActivity = new Intent(Splash.this, MainActivity.class);