Android: Setting Window Background on launched Activity

Question

So I\'ve read Romain Guy\'s blog post on setting the Window background and percieved performance, and am trying to emulate that. It is such a simple solution and not sure w

Answer 1

I have ran into the same problem and wasted my day on it. We can't set the theme in java as in my case the control came to onCreate of my splash activity very late. Till that time black screen keep visible.

This gave me clue that window has to be managed from theme which we specify in manifest.

There is the manifest i have:

Now The theme i created is as follows:

Splash in the drawable resource which contains a bitmap resource, I have to tweak a bit to make it look perfect not stretched and in center: