How to create a Splash Screen?????

Splash Screen in Android

Now we'll learn to create Splash Screen.

Basically the Splash screen is showed to advertise or to load some heavy data previous to starting the Application.

The Example is shown below.

1.activity_main.xml

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"

    android:layout_width="match_parent"

    android:layout_height="match_parent" >

    <ImageView

        android:layout_width="match_parent"

        android:layout_height="match_parent"

        android:src="@drawable/splash" />

    <TextView

        android:layout_width="match_parent"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"

        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"

        android:text="Loading..."

        android:textSize="24sp" />

</RelativeLayout>

2. MainActivity.java

package com.sri.splash;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.os.Handler;

import android.app.Activity;

import android.content.Intent;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

@Override

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {

@Override

public void run() {

// TODO Auto-generated method stub

Intent i=new Intent(getApplicationContext(), Second.class);

startActivity(i);

finish();

}

}, 3000);

}

}

Note:Create one new class Second.java and xml layout file second.xml.

3. Second.java

package com.sri.splash;

import android.app.Activity;

import android.os.Bundle;

public class Second extends Activity {

@Override

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

// TODO Auto-generated method stub

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

setContentView(R.layout.second);

}

}

4. second.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    android:layout_width="match_parent"

    android:layout_height="match_parent"

    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <TextView

        android:id="@+id/textView1"

        android:layout_width="wrap_content"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:text="Hello world"

        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />

</LinearLayout>

5.AndroidManifest.xml

<activity

            android:name="com.sri.splash.MainActivity"

            android:label="@string/app_name" 

            android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Black.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen">

            <intent-filter>

                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />

            </intent-filter>

        </activity>

        <activity android:name="com.sri.splash.Second"

            android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Black.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen">

</activity>

6. Don't Forget to add the splash.png image in res/drawable

Thank you.