Read the Apple iPhone Human Interface Guidelines (HIG). The “splash screen” isn’t supposed to be for branding or displaying a logo, it’s supposed to look like the default condition of the app so it appears to start up quickly. Making it stay there for longer would be a violation of the HIG.
2018 Update – Please don’t use this info ! I’m leaving the below post for reference purposes. Please read Apple’s documentation Human Interface Guidelines – Launch Screens for details on launch screens and recommendations. Thanks Drekka July 2012 – As this reply is rather old, but stills seems popular. I’ve written a blog post based … Read more
No, the default.png is shown while your app starts up. You can add a new viewcontroller which will display the default.png in the application didFinishLoading. This way you display the default.png a bit longer. You should only show the default.png if you are loading data, which could take some time. As the appstore guidelines state, … Read more
Try this JavaFX splash sample created for the Stackoverflow question: Designing a splash screen (java). And a follow up sample which also provides application initialization progress feedback. JavaFX does offer the Preloader interface for smooth transfer from splash to application, but the above samples don’t make use of it. The splash samples above also don’t … Read more
There are different ways of creating splash screens: You can rely on the splash screen feature of WindowsFormsApplicationBase You can show implement the feature yourself by showing a form on a different UI thread and hiding it after the main from loaded successfully. In this post I’ll show an example of both solutions. Note: Those … Read more
Put this in a custom style and it solves all the problems. Using the hacky translucent fix will make your task bar and nav bar translucent and make the splashscreen or main screen look like spaghetti. <item name=”android:windowDisablePreview”>true</item>
In order to have a splash screen in a PhoneGap Android application you need to put your splash.png file into res/drawable-ldpi, res/drawable-mdpi, res/drawable-hdpi, res/drawable-xhdpi. Where those directories represent low, medium, high and extra large dots per inch. You’ll need to resize you splash.png (the file name is important here) for each directory or Android will … Read more
The trick is to to create separate thread responsible for splash screen showing. When you run you app .net creates main thread and loads specified (main) form. To conceal hard work you can hide main form until loading is done. Assuming that Form1 – is your main form and SplashForm is top level, borderles nice … Read more
I want to shed some more light on the actual way of doing a Splash screen in Flutter. I followed a little bit the trace here and I saw that things aren’t looking so bad about the Splash Screen in Flutter. Maybe most of the devs (like me) are thinking that there isn’t a Splash … Read more
The problem is most likely that you are running the splash screen (some sort of Dialog such as ProgressDialog I assume) in the same thread as all the work being done. This will keep the view of the splash screen from being updated, which can keep it from even getting displayed to the screen. You … Read more