Most of the Android apps uses splash screen before launching their application activity. You can see that with most popular apps such as Skype, Facebook, Dropbox etc.
While I was developing an Android APP POC for one of my customer, the requirement was to create a splash screen with their logo which stays on the screen for 3 seconds. It can be done very easily with the below steps.
First we have to create a new project in the Android studio :
1. Click on File -> New Project
2. Mention the
application Name And Minimum SDK, Click on Next
3. Select Blank Activity
and Click Next Button
4. Click on Finish
This
create the android application with blank activity. Now we will add the Splash
screen at the start this application.
First
Create a layout to display the Splash screen. We call it as splash.xml.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="@drawable/splash_image">
</LinearLayout>
We
have to copy the splash_image.jpg image file to drawable folder. This is the image
which is going to be shown in the splash screen.
Now
create a activity which sets this splash content view. This activity we call it
as SplashScreen.java. Put the below code to this class
SplashScreen.java
package marutsoft.vehicledata;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Display;
import android.widget.ImageView;
/**
* Created by Karjol G T on 11-05-2016.
*/
public class SplashScreen extends Activity {
protected int _splashTime = 3000;
private Thread splashThread;
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
Display display = getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay();
setContentView(R.layout.splash);
Thread timerThread = new Thread(){
public void run(){
try{
sleep(3000);
}catch(InterruptedException e){
e.printStackTrace();
}finally{
Intent intent =
new Intent(SplashScreen.this,MainActivity.class);
startActivity(intent);
}
}
};
timerThread.start();
}
@Override
protected void onPause() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
super.onPause();
finish();
}
}
We
have mentioned the sleep for 3000 ms that’s 3 seconds. Here Once the splash
screen is done it invokes MainActivity.class.
Now we
have to include the splash activity to Manifest and we have to make it as a
launcher activity to start the application with this activity. You need to add
the below code to the AndroidManifest .xml file.
<activity
android:name=".SplashScreen"
android:label="@string/app_name" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>
</intent-filter>
</activity>
Now Run
this Android application to check the Splash screen running at the beginning of
the application.
That’s
it. Happy Coding..
