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panthro
panthro

Reputation: 24069

App load screen in Android

On iOS you create a load screen for when the app loads, is there a similar thing in Android. When my app loads, I get a black screen until it opens.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2025

Answers (3)

John Giotta
John Giotta

Reputation: 16974

I'm in no way a iOS expert, but if you're referring to a splash screen, you can do the following:

Create an Activity that it's intent-filter category is set as LAUNCHER in the manifest... say you call it Splash:

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

Then in the new Activity onCreate execute a postDelay to start a new Intent:

new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {
        public void run() {
            Intent intent = new Intent();
            intent.setClass(Splash.this, MyMainActivity.class);
            Splash.this.startActivity(intent);
            Splash.this.finish();
        }
    }, 3000); // splash will show for 3 seconds

Upvotes: 2

Jordy Langen
Jordy Langen

Reputation: 3591

You could display an Activity with a custom View that displays on animated image (using the LayoutInflater to inflate, and an Animation to animate it). Thats how I did it.

Upvotes: 0

Khalos
Khalos

Reputation: 2373

Just make your main (startup) screen an ImageView (or whatever you want your splash screen to have) and then call StartActivity() to start your real main screen.

Upvotes: 0

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