Best way to have a splash screen in an Android application?

Question

I need a splash screen for my application. Tried creating an activity having the image for my splash screen; and tried using for loop and the Timer class for introducing a t

Answer 1

The simplest way I do for my every project is looks like this:

public class SplashActivity extends Activity {
    protected boolean active = true;
    protected int splashTime = 1000;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.splash_screen);
        Thread splashTread = new Thread() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                try {
                    int waited = 0;
                    while(active && (waited < splashTime)) {
                        sleep(100);
                        if(active) {
                            waited += 100;
                        }
                    }
                } catch(InterruptedException e) {
                    // do nothing
                } finally {
                    finish();
                    // Start your Activity here
               }
           }
       };
       splashTread.start();    
   }
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