Android tutorial: How to make a basic splash screen

http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/2715-android-tutorial-how-to-make-a-basic-splash-screen/

The following code will show you how to create a basic splashscreen for your Android application that will stay for 5 seconds. If we don't want to wait we can tap the screen to go directly to the next Activity. Source project is on the bottom of the tutorial.

The project has:

2 Activities
1 Image
0 Animations :-)


Lets go through the code to see how simple it is to make a very basic splash screen for your application.

The splashscreen will be the startup Activity for our application and on application launch a Thread will start that will listen for touch events.

See this blog entry for more information on android programming + the source code

public class SplashScreen extends Activity {

        //how long until we go to the next activity
        protected int _splashTime = 5000; 

        private Thread splashTread;

        /** Called when the activity is first created. */
        @Override
        public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            setContentView(R.layout.splash);

            final SplashScreen sPlashScreen = this; 

            // thread for displaying the SplashScreen
            splashTread = new Thread() {
                @Override
                public void run() {
                    try {
                        synchronized(this){

                                //wait 5 sec
                                wait(_splashTime);
                        }

                    } catch(InterruptedException e) {}
                    finally {
                        finish();

                        //start a new activity
                        Intent i = new Intent();
                        i.setClass(sPlashScreen, Main.class);
                                startActivity(i);

                        stop();
                    }
                }
            };

            splashTread.start();
        }

        //Function that will handle the touch
        @Override
        public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
            if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
                synchronized(splashTread){
                        splashTread.notifyAll();
                }
            }
            return true;
        }

}