Android native Splashscreen

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It works for me, I’m using a theme with white background:

<color name="white">#FFFFFFFF</color>
<style name="SplashTheme" parent="android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen">
  <item name="android:windowContentOverlay">@null</item>
  <item name="android:windowBackground">@color/white</item>
</style>

Please note: using a drawable in your splashscreen is not advised (Google recommends against it), because there is no way to keep the ratio using android:windowBackground. Instead, it’s better to have a dominant color (or transparent, some apps like Skype seem to do that), then show a proper splashscreen image using Java code (bonus: you can add a fade in transition).

I found the best splashscreen is to:

  • have a style on your main activity which defines the main color (white for me)
  • have an Android layout with same style and an ImageView. FadeIn the ImageView during onCreate
  • make the C++ code discard the splashscreen once your first scene is loaded (to avoid having a black screen between splashscreen and first scene). Some people use a fixed timer, but that’s bad practice in my opinion. Just enforce a minimum duration so that FadeIn transition is finished.