Question

In my android app I have an initial activity which popup a dialog (used as the splash screen). I am doing this:

 @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        // Popup a fullscreen dialog (used as splash)
        showSplashScreen();
 }

However there is a small time period before this where a blank empty with my logo and title bar show up. I have no idea how to remove this from showing at all. I even tried to see if this was coming from the same activity, I check by removing the title bar by requesting no title bar. However, I had no luck… This mysterious blank activity shows up for a small time interval.

How do apps like facebook show an initial splash screen first without showing anything else before?

Answer 1

1. use setContentView(R.layout.layout_name); in the code.

2. Describe the Activity that you want to open as a dialogue in the manifest file as:

   <activity
       android:name=".Description_Activity"
       android:screenOrientation="portrait"
       android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Dialog" >
   </activity>