How do I make a splash screen? [closed]

Answer 1

In my case I didn't want to create a new Activity only to show a image for 2 seconds. When starting my MainAvtivity, images gets loaded into holders using picasso, I know that this takes about 1 second to load so I decided to do the following inside my MainActivity OnCreate:

splashImage = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.spllll);

    this.getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);

    int secondsDelayed = 1;
    new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {
        public void run() {
            getWindow().clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);
            splashImage.setVisibility(View.GONE);

        }
    }, secondsDelayed * 2000);

When starting the application the first thing that happens is the ImageView gets displayed and the statusBar is removed by setting the window flags to full screen. Then I used a Handler to run for 2 seconds, after the 2 seconds I clear the full screen flags and set the visibility of the ImageView to GONE. Easy, simple, effective.