Black screen before Splash screen appear in android

Question

We know that when the app do some long process like downloading some information from internet it could show a splash screen before loading the application and when the app

Answer 1

This initial screen that you see is called the "Preview" screen. You can disable this completely by declaring this in your theme:

android:windowDisablePreview

<style name="Theme.MyTheme" parent="android:style/Theme.Holo">
    <!-- This disables the black preview screen -->
    <item name="android:windowDisablePreview">true</item>
</style>

An explanation of how to handle this screen is posted here: http://cyrilmottier.com/2013/01/23/android-app-launching-made-gorgeous/