Animated splash screen with Phonegap

Question

Is that possible to add animated splash screens for Android and iOS Phonegap apps? I tried to add animated .gif as splash screen file for Android but it doesn\'t work. I.e. ther

Answer 1

gif animations are not supported on Android. Animations are possible using jQuery. This is what you can do

1. Create a data-role="page" div which contains your splash screen view
2. register a event listener for "pageshow" event for this page and start your animation using jQuery
3. In the same eventlistener call javascript's timeout function

setTimeout('functionToLoadNewPage', 2000); //functionToLoadNewPage - function name which will load a new page using $.mobile.changePage and 2000 - number of milliseconds for splash screen to be visible