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    <p>We all know there is lots of tutorials about how to do a splash screen on Android. But we also know those are <em>pseudo-splashscreens</em>. I searched for many and I always saw <code>Thread.sleep(x)</code>. That's not well coded, this is just to make the app beauty and looking like a professional app, that's not what I want! <br> Another problem with those splash screens is that they don't solve my problem because they only show it <strong>after</strong> the activity start and show the content view.</p> <p>I have an app that does lots of things while initializing and when the app starts the user sees a black screen for a few seconds, enough time to annoy. So that's why I want to show a well-coded splash screen that removes that black screen that appears before the content view has been set. </p> <p>I tried something. I included the splash screen (a <code>RelativeLayout</code>) into the layout that is set in the <code>MainActivity</code>, but as far as I know Android only shows the content after everything has been loaded, so if I'm trying to show some view from the content view I have to wait until everything has finished. Still, I'll send my code, it can help somehow...</p> <pre><code>@Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); new SplashTask().execute(); } private class SplashTask extends AsyncTask&lt;Void, Void, Void&gt; { @Override protected void onPreExecute() { initializeViews(); mSplashScreen.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE); } @Override protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) { return null; } @Override protected void onPostExecute(Void params) { Standard.Initiate(MainActivity.this); verifyListStats(); loadListAdapters(); setOnClickListeners(); mSplashScreen.setVisibility(View.GONE); } } </code></pre> <p>I tried to load some resources in <code>doInBackground(...)</code> but because I do some operations in <code>onResume()</code> that need those resources I can't do it (or at least I think I can't).</p> <p>Any idea? I heard about a built-in mechanism similar to iOS launch images, perhaps that can be a way.</p>
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    1. CO[Don't](http://cyrilmottier.com/2012/05/03/splash-screens-are-evil-dont-use-them/)
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    2. COYeah @Jonas I liked that article when I read it a while back. It is far better to show your pre-populated GUI while waiting than to block a user with a splash screen.
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    3. COIf your app uses internet you can check for connection on the splas screen as well. That's usefull
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