Question

I want to have a splash screen show up for a few seconds before a dialog pops up. However when I load my app the dialog and the background screen show up at the same time. What can I do to show the background image of my splash.xml before the dialog appears.

Thread waitabit=new Thread(){
public void run(){
try{
    sleep(2000);
}catch(Exception e){
    e.printStackTrace();

}

    }
};waitabit.start();

Putting the above before my dialog just makes it dark for 2 seconds before showing everything all at once. Calling my dialog inside of the thread causes and error because we cant put dialogs in a thread.

Thanks

Answer 1

Try putting the above code in an AsyncTask so that the UIThread does not sleep.

new AsyncTask<Object, Void, Void>() {

    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute() {
        // show background image
    }

    @Override
    protected Void doInBackground(Object... params) {
        new Thread() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                try {
                    Thread.sleep(2000);
                } catch (Exception e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        }.run();
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {
        // open dialog
    }

}.execute();