Animated Splash Screen in iPhone

Question

I need to implement animated splash screen to the iPhone application. I have seen skype application where same thing is already implemented.

Can anyone has idea how can

Answer 1

We can show a .gif image in webView and it looks perfect!

Take a new UIViewController class named SplashView with XIB and then add an UIWebView with (320.0, 480.0) frame, hidden statusbar also.

In SplashView.h

#import 
@interface SplashView : UIViewController
@property(nonatomic, retain)IBOutlet UIWebView *webView;
@end

In SplashView.m

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
   [super viewDidLoad];
   NSString *imagePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource: @"animated" ofType: @"gif"];
   NSData *data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:imagePath];
   [self.webView setUserInteractionEnabled:NO];
   [self.webView loadData:data MIMEType:@"image/gif" textEncodingName:nil baseURL:nil];
}

This is about SplashView class. Now come to your appdelegate's class.

 - (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
    self.window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]];
    // Override point for customization after application launch.
    self.viewController = [[ViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"ViewController" bundle:nil];

    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES];
     splashView = [[SplashView alloc]initWithNibName:@"SplashView" bundle:nil];
    [self.window addSubview:splashView.view];

    [self performSelector:@selector(changeView) withObject:nil afterDelay:3.0];

    [self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
    return YES;
}

-(void)changeView
{
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:NO];
    [splashView.view removeFromSuperview];
    [self.window setRootViewController:self.viewController];
}