Android Splash Screen before black screen

Question

I would like to display a splash screen while everything is initializing in the onCreate() method, yet components that I need to draw things to the screen are also initializ

Answer 1

Create a XML layout for this splash screen and set it as content view right after your super.onCreate():

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView (R.layout.splash_screen);

That should be enough. It would display this splash screen until your setContentView(renderView) is called.