Question

I’m trying to make a splash screen for my Android app, where the login page just starts the Splash activity, and then all the login processing stuff is done there. It then returns a boolean whether login succeeded or not. But the login processing completes before the XML layout content loads. How can this be fixed?

This is my splash screen activity:

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    Bundle extras = getIntent().getExtras();
    if(extras !=null)
    {
        url = extras.getString("url");
    }

    setContentView(R.layout.splashscreen);
    url += "login/?userName=" + Login.loginName + "&password=" + Login.password;

    DomLoginParser parser = new DomLoginParser(url);
    if(parser.parse())
    {
        Login.loginSuccessful = true;
    }
    else
    {
        Login.loginSuccessful = false;
    }

    finish();
}

Answer 1

Move the login out of the onCreate call by using AsyncTask to perform the login.
What you are doing is finishing the activity before giving it a chance to show the contents.
The activity is showing the contentView only after the onCreate call is finished…