The New Splash Screen API is INSANE! 🤯 (No Extra Activity, Animations, Fetching Data, ...)

[@newretrorockets]

my god...it's insane how complicated it is to accomplish such a ridiculously simple task

[@7xFuryPlayz]

🤣 yes

[@bran_rx]

istg bro, android studio is unnecessarily complicated

[@ubersticks]

Thanks again Philipp! Excellent job. I appreciate these short and sweet demos of the new features.

[@ankitverma3932]

Great video. Really helpful.. A kind request if you can show the rest of the features as how to show brand tagline in the bottom and custom backgroud of the splash screen.

[@whitemamba00]

OMG you are reading my mind, I was thinking about creating Splash Screen and now I see this :D thanks bro!

[@PhilippLackner]

Yes I do

[@whitemamba00]

@@PhilippLackner 😮👀

[@theophilus494]

thank you so much Philipp the part you helped fix the scaling of the SplashScreen icon was a great eye opener.. the video was really helpful. thank you and happy new year

[@hcaltay]

If we are using a PNG file for the icon how can we do the last thing you did?

[@andrewscott1253]

Insane would be accurate, I think the new API is so limited and very poorly thought out. It would have been better to leave things as they are rather than enforce this hot mess on us with no proper way to disable it. Its essentially a plain colored screen (no gradients or background images supported yet) with a hole in it into which a small icon / graphic can be shown. Yes it adds animation (which no doubt will often be done poorly) but we could do that anyway in a splash screen activity if we really wanted. This little bit extra comes at the great expense of any flexibility. Now apps loose their individuality, the new splash screen is too brief without extra hack like programming. So now the Splash screen can't even do things like contain a progress indicator, it has essentially become momentary flim flam. Frankly, this represents a giant leap backwards for the sake of uniformity.

[@MK-to4et]

The actual difference is minimal - if your app didn't have a splash screen (and apps shouldn't if possible IMO) the app icon is briefly shown by default in Android 12 .. that's it .. a pointless animation, I know the app I'm opening I just clicked the icon! The fallout for this is EVERY app that has a custom splash screen and targets sdk 31 will have to migrate as custom splash screens won't play nicely with the mandated splash screen. A new manifest flag to disable the system splash screen giving the developer choice would have been better. This does feel akin to Launch Screen in iOS - it seems feature parity with iOS is more important to Google ... whether anyone asked for these features or not ..

[@toml1087]

And funny thing is the jetpack library to support previous versions is not even stable still, although android 12 was released half year ago.

[@bitwisedevs469]

Same thought

[@Joske369]

Android being trash as usual, like scope storage wasn't enough. It wouldv been so much better if they put this time in improving dialogfragments

[@Rajmanov]

true, this new splash screen is super buggy.

[@dimokofficial]

Thank you very much! I've been racking my brain for a long time why it doesn't work, I've been looking through too many tutorials but when you said it was a studio error, and if you re-enter the application, you'll see a splash screen, I understood what was the matter.

[@tarsilacostalonga]

Great video, Phillip. It was not clear to me: what is the difference between the properties inside a starting with android: and those without this prefix. I heard you say the ones starting with android: are only for android 12. What about the others?

[@NenadStrbic]

Brilliant, thank you Philipp, thank you very much. The actual content, cutting edge also.

[@sumitsuryawanshi9060]

you deserve more Subscribers man, Insane Grateful for you Videos. Keep growing brother. God Bless you.

[@PhilippLackner]

Thanks a ton! All the best for you as well buddy

[@ahsakpwks1345]

You become a really active channel nowadays, and i f.cking love it

[@PhilippLackner]

I became? I upload at least every 2-3 days for over 2 years 😂 but thanks bro

[@ПавелЗубко-ц8ч]

Happy new year man !!! Thx for video!

[@shaikhshafeen]

May your lifespan gets increased Keep uploading! Learning so much stuffs from your channel.

[@PhilippLackner]

Thanks, will do!

[@pubgplayer2427]

I tried everything but nothing worked for me then I found your video and its working 100%. Thanks

[@ArthurKhazbs]

The baby changing station icon is so... kinky, I guess

[@rileyfarro6801]

After pokedex API with jetpack compose. Now the perfect splash screen. Thank you sensei 👌

[@PhilippLackner]

Glad I could help!

[@fatherGeorge90s]

It works nicely on API 32, but on lower API (tried 26) it showed an oversized default launch icon. Do you know what can be the problem?

[@xxxx85]

My splashscreen has an animation (0.6s long), but the splashscreen cancels before the animation can finish. I understand it's because the app underneath has finished loading. But is there no function built into the API to set the minimum amount of time to wait before going to the post-splashscreen theme? Do I really have to create a new task that runs in a thread to prevent the splashscreen from cutting short?

[@Ok-Chance]

hi , i used a logo as png , how can i scale it

[@JorgeSotoRamos]

This is the correct way to make a splash screen. Thank you for your good work.

[@JorgeSotoRamos]

How could I put a text under the image?

[@DeceptiveRealities]

While I understand that Google wants to make all of Android appear consistent, this crosses the line from what is within their remit to what is in ours. Splash screens are part of the app, not part of the OS. If I want a splash screen that takes up the entire screen with a pretty picture and waits for ten minutes then that's my business, not Google's. If my users hate it, they won't download my app or will uninstall it. Simple. What next? Dictating that we can only use "official" Google colours and layouts in our apps? This, along with the "you need 20 testers for your app" shows just what dark path Google is taking developers down. It's fortunate you can hack and circumvent this ridiculous "splash screen" they've dictated and still put up your own - but for how long?

[@huntingcarbon]

So how can I implement a splashscreen for an app that should be used both below and above android 12?

[@SchildiZuHause]

Thanks for the tutorial, I have added my own svg icon and it works beautifully. How can I adjust the size, because my logo is scaled too big

[@DiabloZq]

Thank you and happy new year)!

[@AlbertBuigues]

I tried this today but in Android 34 is showing a black screen the rest of the time, the splash appears only 200 ms or less. How can i achieve this?

[@ankitverma3932]

How do I keep a drawable as splash screen background

[@farahrayis5928]

Quality content as always. Thank you!

[@cyberavater8103]

I love your videos bro, really appreciate your work. Can you make videos about app icon and app signing?

[@alaminegueye3218]

Tried this on a project and I still can't figure out why don't we have the possibility to give another shape to the splash Icon. What if I wanna display a text ?

[@baijusharma6027]

Happy New Year Philipp. Have a great year ahead 🥳🥳. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. God Bless you. 🙏

[@PhilippLackner]

Thanks, wish you the same!

[@shlusiak]

Isn't the splash a feature of the launcher launching the activity? As such Android Studio is probably bypassing the launcher and that's why you don't get the splash when launched from there. But also the fact that returning from a child activity to the MainActivity may cause the splash screen to show kind of makes me feel that with this API we can actually do less with less lines of code. :-/

[@ZaydMohammed-uc9nt]

Hey Philipp, this is really a great tutorial but I keep getting one error. When I put "@style/Theme.SplashScreenAndroid12", it keeps turning red. Is there a solution for this?

[@LamijaSahat]

Thank you for the great video, but i just have one question; how do you add a picture as a splash screen instead of an icon or how do I edit the size and shape of the icon?

[@Elleozito]

What can i do with that 'icon scale' when i'm using a image instead of an icon?i can put "group" on images...

[@SG-rb4bz]

Thanks for this cool video. Had the same problem - splash screen didn't show if I ran the app from Android Studio :D One question - why did you set theme attribute (Theme.App.Starting) to activity tag in Manifest file as well? Documentation says that theme should be set either in application OR in activity tag.

[@jude-l3f]

Thanks for the awesome content Phillip 👍🏾

[@PhilippLackner]

My pleasure!

[@breensrobert]

nice learnt a lot thanks Philip

[@PhilippLackner]

Glad it helped!

[@schrodingerscat3912]

The icon looks sooo tiny on physical device (Samsung) How can the icon be increased in size?? It's very limiting, can't apply a larger image or anything.

[@itsjee9700]

API 21 just shows the background color and not the icon . What's the problem ?

[@AlbertBuigues]

which will be the correct way to set a specific time for the splash screen to remain on screen? i tried this: var splashMustRemain = true installSplashScreen().setKeepOnScreenCondition { splashMustRemain } Handler(mainLooper).postDelayed({ splashMustRemain = false }, 3000) it works well in all mobiles except android 34 mobiles that it appears a few milliseconds and the rest is a black screen

[@annakarenina9600]

What is the best practice for splash screen with animation? For user under android 12 version

[@PhilippLackner]

as I said in the video, the new API supports that. Just pass an animated vector drawable for the theme attribtue

[@mike_f]

That scaling tip was cool. I fought with that and gave up and ended up using a png with margin around the icon. But the bummer to me is it only seems to work with the stock launcher. My prior splash worked on all launchers. I prefer Nova. I just test with stock. I realize most users are probably just using stock anyway. But after working on the new splash it would be nice to know all users will see it. I've noticed no difference in load time between my old splash and this new one. Wish the branding image worked < 12 but so be it.

[@mike_f]

@ᐯ❍íÐ not really sure why. I tested on a few custom launchers and none worked. What makes it even worse is how it doesn't even work on an emulator with Google's own launcher on first launch from android studio. You need to kill your app and cold launch it on the emulator.

[@vahit·keskin]

Can we use image instead of icon? After all, the icon is very small and takes up a limited space.

[@ArthurKhazbs]

Yes, of course. As Philipp said, you can use any drawable.

[@hxrin3748]

Just tried this, great stuff!

[@Spham99]

When I ran the repo he provided, the splashscreen never showed...

[@esmeraldafloresmontiel3327]

Why when installing for the first time from Android Studio the screen is gray and then you have to close and reopen to show your logo?

[@valentineeze4777]

Hello, How do I solve this problem.."The emulator process for AVD Pixel_3_XL_API_29 was killed"?

[@ftucilukmi9149]

Can we create splashscreen using image? Also The image is not circle.. i was try it but the image automatically crop circle. my image is square, and i don't know how to put my square image to splashscreen.. maybe do u have a solution?

[@summerwise]

I have a question, what kind of things should I do in splash screen? I have a screen with lazyColumn and list. I get this list from usecase in my screenViewModel. Should I start getting this list in splash screen and how to do this in mainActivity and pass list to other viewModel from MainViewModel? Or should I use the same viewModel from my screen in MainActivity for that?

[@danielconde13]

Hello, newbie here. In order to make use of this, does that mean that the minimum API for the app must be 31? How can you implement this? Thanks.

[@letoatreides8098]

I always use API 21, just had to add dependencies myself. I'm very unfamiliar and don't know if adding dependencies breaks the API compability. Like it now doesn't work for older phones?

[@samirramic9071]

So it seems when setting an appicon there is a bug where when you open the app every time for a short peroid the mipmap is displayed? Anyone know anything about that?

[@freed5464]

I cannot get "setContent" to work. I tried a bunch of stuff: [buildFeatures + compose true], [composeOptions + kotlinCompilerExtensionVersion '1.3.0'],. I researched this for like 60 minutes. I just can't get setContent to "be there" -- I get "Unresolved reference: setContent" in the IDE. This is even the case for a brand new Empty Activity App. Any thoughts? Thanks

[@freed5464]

Also [implementation 'androidx.activity:activity-compose:1.6.0-rc01']

[@arjunbhat6502]

Error : You need to use a Theme.AppCompat theme (or descendant) with this activity.

[@wahyukoco4562]

i found the solution! i just didn't change the application theme and just change mainActivity Theme.

[@RonaldoGuedes]

How can I add a text bellow?

[@AniobiStanley]

I tried it built and installed, but the "MainActivity" won't launch; it says I would have to use "AppCompat" theme (or its descendants), but in the video Philipp said we should replace the theme in the Manifest file with the "ThemeAppStarting" we just created "java lang IllegalStateException You need to use a ThemeAppCompat theme (or descendant) with this activity."

[@ionutmoisoni3356]

You need to add SplashScreen.installSplashScreen(this); in your launcher activity

[@ionutmoisoni3356]

@Ashish Dwivedi call it before super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); in onCreate. If you are using Kotlin it's "val splashScreen = installSplashScreen()" instead of "SplashScreen splashScreen = SplashScreen.installSplashScreen(this);"

[@cyber_dbs]

@@ionutmoisoni3356 thanks!

[@DerCheckerzeigts]

For me it does not change for the postSplashScreen, what am I doing wrong?

[@JohnMatthews-d4b]

It is a known bug with Android studio that the emulator does not display when run from studio. I filed the bug for this

[@jakesanderson8698]

is there any way to use this but with a full background image and no logo?

[@arunsivanandan4432]

#PhilippLackner Nice video. You made it clean and simple by explaining all the steps while implementing it. I have one question though. I understand using the splash screen api, we can eliminate the use of Splash Screen activity which we used to create and customize it a few years back or we can do some network calls or handle some usecase logic. But since we are using this in our landing page, how will you restrict the splash screen from calling again, if the same activity has to be called again due some use case. For example : In landing page (Doing login, plus splash screen got executed) -> Navigated to home page after login successful -> Logging out (Returning back to landing page) - Here when returning back to landing page, the splash screen will be invoked in OnCreate again right ? So how to stop this ? Do we have to use Shared Preferences with a boolean flag ? How do you tackle this situation when using SplashScreenApi ?

[@shivanggautam541]

can we not add text along with vector drawable in splash screen ?

[@YashNagayach]

Is this icon scalable to all size devices?

[@mkc0321]

your videos are amazing😀

[@xephosbot]

May I know how to make a splash screen disappear animation like this? Or is it a built-in transition from Pixel Launcher?

[@IdeasComo]

Esto funciona para Android 5 por encima?

[@abuiman5251]

Thank you for the useful content, Philipp! But how to change icon shape in Android 12 Splash screen? Is it possible?

[@dreamer6228751]

Best video bro!))

[@RajuYadav-qm4ic]

To fit any jpg png icon in a circle read android window splash screen doc

[@mehmethasanakcay4326]

Hi Philipp, can we add gradient color as a background ? I couldn't find any info about it anywhere.

[@parvindersiyan9706]

hey this looks cool for those application whose next to splash screen is fixed. so if i have two options after splash then how would I used new splash screen api?

[@abovemediocrity245]

can we remove the circle and the icon?

[@TanushreeShelare]

how to remove the splash screen completely. i have my custom splash screen.

[@tiltedbybox6118]

The splash not showing when you run from Android studio first time doesn't happen on real device (at least on my android 11 phone). It's definitely some stupid bug.

[@PhilippLackner]

What I'm using here is my real device

[@tiltedbybox6118]

@@PhilippLackner Then maybe it's A12 thing, which is kinda ironic, after all the version introduced the api in the first place. Anyway, at least you pointed out its a bug and how to fix it, so good job.

[@rishabhone5083]

This is definitely much better than the windowBackground method, *But Can we implement SharedElementTransition Animation with this new Splash Api?* The current way I'm using a Splash Screen is, I have a Splash Activity. The App loads with a Dark Background defined with windowBackground, after which the Splash Activity's Layout Inflates, which has a ImageView with the Splash Logo Drawable in the center, and if I'm navigating to the Login Screen, I perform a SharedElement Transition to the LoginActivity's Splash Logo Image. Right now I don't think SharedElementTransitions will be possible with this Api until they allow us to have Custom Layout Xml files to enable SharedElementTransitions. Until then, Happy New Year Phillip

[@PhilippLackner]

Not possible right now, but that's a quite specific use case 😁 Happy new year too!

[@bitwisedevs469]

I just use this and upon testing it on multiple device and version, I would say I am correct even at the beginning that this is a half-baked API. Inconsistent behavior and buggy. I hope it gets better or just remove and deprecate it already.

[@hussein9577]

great as always !

[@aneessaleh2870]

At least finish the video first

[@hussein9577]

@@aneessaleh2870 when it's Philipp , i'm sure it's gonna be great

[@abdallawanjusi]

Hi Phillip, I implemented this splash screen and noticed that when I press the power button to close the phone screen during the splash and I press the power button again to turn on the screen, the splash screen turns black until I restart the app or resume the app by minimizing it and opening it again

[@rachimvdr]

why do people press power button during opening an app (splash screen time)?

[@letoatreides8098]

Thanks. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. I had to dig around and add the dependencies manually to have the features avaliable, like MutableStateFlow. viewModelScope, viewModels. Is this because I'm using SDK: API 21? If Id use a newer one, the dependencies would already be there? Also, this splash screen, you can't do anything to the design, it will always just be confined to that circle? I'd think the simpler thing would be to just use an activity that shows up at start and design it however you like. And then you're automatically redirected to the main acitivity after 3 seconds. But I'm new to Android development so what do I know?! Thanks for the tutorial!

[@michaelengeser3524]

Hey Thank you for this great video :) One question. If I have a second Activity and go back to my MainActivity the SplashScreen is also be shown. What can I do that it only will be displayed at the beginning? Maybe you have an answer for me.

[@shlusiak]

That's why Google shouldn't make APIs. The SplashScreen shouldn't be tied to the Activity but to the App because it is the loading state of the "App", not the screen, where I'd expect a loading state in the Activity if there is anything to load. But because your MainActivity may be recreated when you return from your child activity, the splash screen is shown again. You can try to make that better by not controlling how long the splash screen is shown in the activity's ViewModel, maybe that makes a difference? It'd be a lie to say this new API fixes anything.

[@bboydarknesz]

omg, finally after many years !!! you dope for make this video love you mia khalifa!

[@muhammadanas7502]

awesome tutorial...keep it up.

[@Merkost]

Hello, Phillip! How do you stream your real device screen to pc? I can't find how to enable this feature anywhere(

[@harvey7771]

I guess he used a tool called Vysor. I have been using it for years.

[@KhushbuShah25]

Hi Phillip, Thanks for this cool video. I have one query related to the new Splash screen API. Currently, I have a separate Splash screen (an older way) in which I read shared preferences to check if a user is logged in or not. If the user is logged in then will launch Home screen of app, and launch the login screen otherwise. How can I do this without separate activity?

[@rrd]

What software did you use to mirror your pixel 6 screen? Or is it an AVD?

[@PhilippLackner]

It's called vysor :)

[@josechocobar9334]

"setContent" is compose?

[@izztuka]

I follow your projects and implement them in my own projects, I wish you could share the project screens in your github repo :/

[@baadrqaaba9529]

Thats what i needed , finally .

[@PhilippLackner]

Awesome!

[@alymohamed5966]

I think this API is not going to work as it should if the app has more than one activity, if you want to show the splash screen while deciding that you want to stay on the same activity showing this splash screen or moving to another activity like Authentication Activity for example if this is the first use, the transition animation will look very bad.

[@BM-tp4kn]

The splash screen only displays on a cold start of the app

[@crateer]

Yes?!

[@anwarzahid8920]

is it working in all device?

[@hasanzolfagharipour]

Hi philipp, very cool video, thanks a lot. can you tell api for Stretch overscroll effect in android 12 for below. just for google.

[@norDevCommand]

Nice tutorial, do you know how can i add an animation instead of a icon?

[@vahidgarousii]

Happy new photo 🤩😍

[@jacobgonzalez4746]

works for API 32?

[@shubhamsharma0099]

how can i add this in #react native @latest version

[@nastenkaoo]

maybe

[@mandroidx1474]

I didn't used this before bcz i thought it won't allow us to do something during splash,now it is cool,thank u now i got it

[@haykmkrtchyan7093]

What about some animations in splash screen?

[@s-w]

I couldn't figure that out myself. I just ended up creating a dialog Fragment that can be created and shown from that activity as a splash screen.

[@haykmkrtchyan7093]

​@@s-w Me neither. There's only one imageview and textview we can control)

[@PhilippLackner]

As I said in the video, create an animated vector drawable and pass it for that animated icon theme attribute. For more about animated vector drawables check the docs or so

[@haykmkrtchyan7093]

@@PhilippLackner it's ok thank you. I mean when we need some other complex animations, which is not possible with vector drawables. Something like lottie animation.

[@s-w]

@Philipp Lackner I would have done that, but my app takes a bit to start when first opened, so I have a progress bar with my app icon, so it's not just the progress bar.

[@CalamityDeadshot]

Why using delay though? I would expect Google to provide means for displaying the splash screen for as long as it takes to load and draw the starting activity, as it was with the old hacky way.

[@bekdev564]

I think it is just to demonstrate that you can make network calls, which takes unknows amount of time, and the splash screen closes when the network operation is done. If you don't want to do anything while splash screen is showing, you can omit this part

[@PhilippLackner]

Exactly. Just to simulate delay. Replace with a suspending network call or whatever

[@mrclutch271]

Bro.. please guide us ...how to use animated vectors

[@nickshv8727]

3 feb 2022, this is doesn't work. I came from iOS and I can tell that android development fills really bad after iOS