Question

When you start android app Main activity starts with white background and black header with your app name in left corner. Like this

How to wholly remove this (when app is started not to show this) and add custom loading progress bar or some logo to the screen?

Answer 1

What worked for me (since I don’t have much load up on start actually I didn’t need splash screen at all) is changing res/values/styles.xml :

<resources>
<color name="custom_theme_color">#000000</color>
<style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Light" >
<item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="android:windowBackground">@color/custom_theme_color</item>
</style>
</resources>

It just start with black screen witch goes to full screen (after 1-2 sec) when it is all loaded.
It looks very “profesional”.