Create a true splash screen

Question

How can I make a true splash screen in Android? I don\'t want timers or delays. Just a splash screen that is shown until your application has loaded.

Answer 1

Sometime, using splash, the app need a few milliseconds or second to load the content of the Activity.

If you only want a "backgorund image" as usual splash screen. I think the best way is using Themes.

Using SherlockActionBar for example:

where splash can be a .9 file to fill the screen.

And the the Activity in the Manifest must be something like

    
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then you don't need the setContent(View) line in your code. And the Theme will be loaded faster than the content.

This allows you to have a splash screen from the beginning of the load of the app. Without black windows or actionBars or something like that.