Splash screen activity background color

Question

I have problem with my splash screen on Android. Splash screen is displayed to the user during long application startup but activity background is always black. I mean backg

Answer 1

This is how I was able to get white background splash (logo centred) in Xamarin.

[Activity (Theme= "@style/Theme.Splash", MainLauncher=true, NoHistory=true)]            
public class SplashActivity : Activity
{
    protected override void OnCreate (Bundle bundle)
    {
        base.OnCreate (bundle);
        SetContentView (Resource.Layout.splash);
        ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem (o => LoadActivity ());
        // Create your application here
    }
    private void LoadActivity() {
        Thread.Sleep (1000); // Simulate a long pause
        RunOnUiThread (() => StartActivity (typeof(MainActivity)));
    }
}

with Theme.Splash as:

and splash.axml code (Theme.Light.NoTitleBar) as:

NB: There is a slight delay in the splash png (logo) to come up, but its still acceptable, better than the black background.