ImageView as a splash screen not working

Question

My android app takes some time to initialize, and I'd like to show a splash image before the loading screen appears and hide it afterwards. I searched through stackoverflow and found some solutions. I tried to follow this tutorial, that explains how to implement a proper splash screen that starts within a splash activity, but it didn't solve my problem, because there was still a several seconds black screen between the splash screen and the loading screen (which renders from a separate thread of C++ code, and has to initialize a bunch of things before render starts, please don't ask to change that part, it's a crossplatform C++ engine). Next I experimented with a ProgressDialog taken from here, started it in onCreate of the main activity and hided when C++ part starts actual rendering, and it worked fine except not being a splash image. But the timing was exactly what I need. Then I replaced it with an ImageView and it didn't work (no image is shown).

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    //...
    mImageView = new ImageView(this);
    mImageView.setScaleType(ScaleType.FIT_XY);
    mImageView.setImageResource(R.drawable.splash_bg);
    setContentView(mImageView);
}

splash_bg.png is put into res/drawable folder and shows fine from the splash activity. What is missing?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 28 '16 at 13:41

You should made theme for your splash activity like:

<style name="AppTheme.Splash" parent="YOURMAIN_THEME">
        <item name="android:windowBackground">@drawable/splash_bg</item>
</style>

And create your splash in drawable directory splash_bg.xml like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item
        android:drawable="@drawable/splash_background"/>
    <item
        android:top="30dp">
        <bitmap
            android:gravity="top"
            android:src="@drawable/demo_logo"
            />
    </item>
    <item>
        <bitmap
            android:gravity="center"
            android:src="@drawable/demo_emlogo"/>
    </item>
</layer-list>

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 28 '16 at 13:24

0

Add this line in your onCreate(Bundle savedInstance) method:

mImageView = new ImageView(this);
    mImageView.setScaleType(ScaleType.FIT_XY);
    mImageView.setImageResource(R.drawable.splash_bg);
LayoutParams imageViewLayoutParams 
         = new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
        mImageView.setLayoutParams(imageViewLayoutParams);

answered Apr 28 '16 at 13:24

Lips_coder

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what is the issue?Is the image is blurred or not loading at all @LawfulChaotic – Lips_coder Apr 29 '16 at 06:48
In which folder your are keeping your image? – Lips_coder Apr 29 '16 at 09:02
In res\drawable folder. It's original size is 1536x2048, though I tried to make it 800x1280 (testing device resolution), and to copy it into various drawable-xhdpi folders – LawfulChaotic Apr 29 '16 at 09:18
I didn't get it various drawable-xhdpi folders? You should have only one drawable-xhpi folders.Please give the correct folder names. – Lips_coder Apr 29 '16 at 09:20
Sorry I meant res\drawable-mdpi, res\drawable-hdpi, res\drawable-xhdpi, res\drawable-xxhdpi folders. – LawfulChaotic Apr 29 '16 at 09:29
If you are facing problem in doing it programmatically,try it out in XML.Check if the problem still exists.@Lawful Chaotic – Lips_coder Apr 29 '16 at 09:33

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 28 '16 at 13:26

xml for splash screen.  

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/imageView1"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:background="@drawable/ic_splash_screen" />

</RelativeLayout>

In MainActivity 



public class Splash extends Activity {

    private final int SPLASH_DISPLAY_LENGHT = 1000;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
        super.onCreate(icicle);
        setContentView(R.layout.splashscreen);

        new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                Intent mainIntent = new Intent(Splash.this,
                        MainActivity.class);
                Splash.this.startActivity(mainIntent);
                Splash.this.finish();
            }
        }, SPLASH_DISPLAY_LENGHT);
    }
}

This way splash shows for one second before the main activity starts, then the black screen shows again. So it simply adds another second of waiting to the user. Splash screen need to be visible during initialization, not before it. Also, instead of fixed SPLASH_DISPLAY_LENGHT time I need a way to dismiss the splash screen from the main activity when it starts actual rendering. — LawfulChaotic, Apr 29 '16 at 06:54

ImageView as a splash screen not working

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