How to make a splash screen (screen visible when app starts)?

Question

I have a simple application, it starts, loads xml feed from the net, you can browse a list of news and then read details for a chosen news item. What I would like to do is h

Answer 1

I know this is old but for those of you who are still facing this problem, you can use this simple android-splash library to show your splash screen.

SplashBuilder
        .with(this, savedInstanceState)
        .show();

You can set SplashTask that will execute while the splash screen is displayed.