How do I make a splash screen? [closed]

Answer 1

Really easy & gr8 approach :

• First create your splash with the following website :

  https://www.norio.be/android-feature-graphic-generator/

  Choose your logo and slogan, choose your beautiful background. resize it to 4096x4096.

• Now download that picture and uplodate it to :

  https://apetools.webprofusion.com/app/#/tools/imagegorilla

  And generate all the splash screens needed, all devices, all platforms.

Enjoy!

There are enough answers here that will help with the implementation. this post was meant to help others with the first step of creating the splash screen!

Answer 2

• Create an activity: Splash
• Create a layout XML file: splash.xml
• Put UI components in the splash.xml layout so it looks how you want

• your Splash.java may look like this:

  public class Splash extends Activity {
      @Override
      public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
          super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
          setContentView(R.layout.splash);
  
          int secondsDelayed = 1;
          new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {
                  public void run() {
                          startActivity(new Intent(Splash.this, ActivityB.class));
                          finish();
                  }
          }, secondsDelayed * 1000);
      }
  }
  

• change ActivityB.class to whichever activity you want to start after the splash screen

• check your manifest file and it should look like

        <activity
            android:name=".HomeScreen"
            android:label="@string/app_name">     
        </activity>

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

Answer 3

     - Add in SplashActivity 

   public class SplashActivity extends Activity {

       private ProgressBar progressBar;
       int i=0;
       Context context;
       private GoogleApiClient googleApiClient;

       @Override
       protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
           super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
           setContentView(R.layout.activity_splash);
           context = this;

           new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {
               @Override
               public void run() {
                   startActivity(new Intent(Splash.this, LoginActivity.class));
                   finish();
               }
           }, 2000);

       }

   }

  - Add in activity_splash.xml

   <RelativeLayout
   xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
       xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
       xmlns:custom="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
       android:background="@color/colorAccent"
       android:layout_width="match_parent"
       android:layout_height="match_parent"
       tools:context=".Splash">

       <ImageView
           android:id="@+id/ivLogo"
           android:layout_width="match_parent"
           android:layout_height="match_parent"
           android:src="@mipmap/icon_splash"
           android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
           android:layout_centerVertical="true"/>


       <ProgressBar
           android:id="@+id/circle_progress"
           style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleHorizontal"
           android:layout_width="fill_parent"
           android:layout_height="wrap_content"
           android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
           android:layout_marginBottom="5dp"
           android:max="100"
           android:progressTint="@color/green"
           android:visibility="visible" />

   </RelativeLayout>

  - Add in AndroidManifest.xml

    <activity android:name="ex.com.SplashActivity">
               <intent-filter>
                   <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                   <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
               </intent-filter>
           </activity>

Answer 4

Though there are good answers, I will show the google recommended way:

1)First create a Theme for splash screen: you have a theme called splashscreenTheme, your launcher theme would be:

<style name="splashscreenTheme">
  <item name="android:windowBackground">@drawable/launch_screen</item>
</style>

Note:

android:windowBackground already sets your splashscreen image no
need to do this in UI again.

you can also use color here instead of a drawable.

2)Set the theme to manifest of splashscreenActivity

   <activity
            android:name=".activity.splashscreenActivity"
            android:screenOrientation="portrait"
            android:theme="@style/splashscreenTheme">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>

3)make sure you launch_screen drawable is not in drawable folder if your image is not small.

It will result in faster launch screen start and save you from the black screen

It also avoids extra overdraw

Answer 5

Abdullah's answer is great. But i want to add some more details to it with my answer.

Implementing a Splash Screen

Implementing a splash screen the right way is a little different than you might imagine. The splash view that you see has to be ready immediately, even before you can inflate a layout file in your splash activity.

So you will not use a layout file. Instead, specify your splash screen’s background as the activity’s theme background. To do this, first create an XML drawable in res/drawable.

background_splash.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <item
        android:drawable="@color/gray"/>

    <item>
        <bitmap
            android:gravity="center"
            android:src="@mipmap/ic_launcher"/>
    </item>

</layer-list>

It just a layerlist with logo in center background color with it.

Now open styles.xml and add this style

<style name="SplashTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar">
        <item name="android:windowBackground">@drawable/background_splash</item>
</style>

This theme will have to actionbar and with background that we just created above.

And in manifest you need to set SplashTheme to activity that you want to use as splash.

<activity
android:name=".SplashActivity"
android:theme="@style/SplashTheme">
<intent-filter>
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

    <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>

Then inside your activity code navigate user to the specific screen after splash using intent.

public class SplashActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        Intent intent = new Intent(this, MainActivity.class);
        startActivity(intent);
        finish();
    }
}

That's the right way to do. I used these references for answer.

1. https://material.google.com/patterns/launch-screens.html
2. https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/splash-screens-the-right-way/ Thanks to these guys for pushing me into right direction. I want to help others because accepted answer isn't a recommended to do splash screen.

Answer 6

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

@Override

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    Thread t=new Thread()
    {

        public void run()
        {   

            try {

                sleep(2000);
                finish();
                Intent cv=new Intent(MainActivity.this,HomeScreen.class/*otherclass*/);
                startActivity(cv);
            } 

            catch (InterruptedException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    };
    t.start();
}