Android Splash Screen before black screen

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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 initializing, therefore there's a black screen when I start the app and after the onCreate() method has completed then only is the first screen drawn. Instead of having the black screen I'd like a splash screen. Here's my code in the onCreate method: ``` @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); // Acquire a wakeLock to prevent the phone from sleeping PowerManager powerManager = (PowerManager) getSystemService(Context.POWER_SERVICE); wakeLock = powerManager.newWakeLock(PowerManager.FULL_WAKE_LOCK, "GLGame"); // Setup all the Game Engine components gameEngineLog = new WSLog("WSGameEngine"); gameEngineLog.setLogType(this.gameEngineLogType); gameLog = new WSLog(this.gameLogTAG); gameLog.setLogType(this.gameLogType); io = new FileIO(this, getAssets()); audio = new Audio(t…

Accepted Answer

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.

Android Splash Screen before black screen

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