cordova-plugin-splashscreen

This plugin displays and hides a splash screen during application launch.

:warning: Report issues on the Apache Cordova issue tracker

Installation

// npm hosted (new) id
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-splashscreen

// you may also install directly from this repo
cordova plugin add https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-splashscreen.git

Supported Platforms

• Amazon Fire OS
• Android
• BlackBerry 10
• iOS
• Windows Phone 7 and 8
• Windows 8
• Windows
• Browser

Preferences

config.xml

• SplashScreen (string). The resource name which is used for the displaying splash screen. Different platforms use values for this.

   <preference name="SplashScreen" value="resourcename" />

• AutoHideSplashScreen (boolean, default to true). Indicates wherether hide splash screen automatically or not. Splash screen hidden after amount of time specified in the SplashScreenDelay preference.

   <preference name="AutoHideSplashScreen" value="true" />

• SplashScreenDelay (number, default to 3000). Amount of time in milliseconds to wait before automatically hide splash screen.

   <preference name="SplashScreenDelay" value="3000" />

Android Quirks

In your config.xml, you need to add the following preferences:

<preference name="SplashScreen" value="foo" />
<preference name="SplashScreenDelay" value="3000" />
<preference name="SplashMaintainAspectRatio" value="true|false" />
<preference name="SplashShowOnlyFirstTime" value="true|false" />

Where foo is the name of the splashscreen file, preferably a 9 patch file. Make sure to add your splashcreen files to your res/xml directory under the appropriate folders. The second parameter represents how long the splashscreen will appear in milliseconds. It defaults to 3000 ms. See Icons and Splash Screens for more information.

"SplashMaintainAspectRatio" preference is optional. If set to true, splash screen drawable is not stretched to fit screen, but instead simply "covers" the screen, like CSS "background-size:cover". This is very useful when splash screen images cannot be distorted in any way, for example when they contain scenery or text. This setting works best with images that have large margins (safe areas) that can be safely cropped on screens with different aspect ratios.

The plugin reloads splash drawable whenever orientation changes, so you can specify different drawables for portrait and landscape orientations.

"SplashShowOnlyFirstTime" preference is also optional and defaults to true. When set to true splash screen will only appear on application launch. However, if you plan to use navigator.app.exitApp() to close application and force splash screen appear on next launch, you should set this property to false (this also applies to closing the App with Back button).

Browser Quirks

You can use the following preferences in your config.xml:

<platform name="browser">
    <preference name="SplashScreen" value="images/browser/splashscreen.jpg" /> <!-- defaults to "img/logo.png" -->
    <preference name="SplashScreenDelay" value="3000" /> <!-- defaults to "3000" -->
    <preference name="SplashScreenBackgroundColor" value="green" /> <!-- defaults to "#464646" -->
    <preference name="ShowSplashScreen" value="false" /> <!-- defaults to "true" -->
    <preference name="SplashScreenWidth" value="600" /> <!-- defaults to "170" -->
    <preference name="SplashScreenHeight" value="300" /> <!-- defaults to "200" -->
</platform>

Android and iOS Quirks

• FadeSplashScreen (boolean, defaults to true): Set to false to prevent the splash screen from fading in and out when its display state changes.

    <preference name="FadeSplashScreen" value="false"/>

• FadeSplashScreenDuration (float, defaults to 3000): Specifies the number of milliseconds for the splash screen fade effect to execute.

    <preference name="FadeSplashScreenDuration" value="3000"/>

Note also that this value used to be seconds, and not milliseconds, so values less than 30 will still be treated as seconds. ( Consider this a deprecated patch that will disapear in some future version. )

Note: FadeSplashScreenDuration is included into SplashScreenDelay, for example if you have <preference name="SplashScreenDelay" value="3000" /> and <preference name="FadeSplashScreenDuration" value="1000"/> defined in config.xml:

• 00:00 - splashscreen is shown
• 00:02 - fading has started
• 00:03 - splashscreen is hidden

Turning the fading off via <preference name="FadeSplashScreen" value="false"/> technically means fading duration to be 0 so that in this example the overall splash delay will still be 3 seconds.

Note: This only applies to the app startup - you need to take the fading timeout into account when manually showing/hiding the splashscreen in the code:

navigator.splashscreen.show();
window.setTimeout(function () {
    navigator.splashscreen.hide();
}, splashDuration - fadeDuration);

• ShowSplashScreenSpinner (boolean, defaults to true): Set to false to hide the splash-screen spinner.

    <preference name="ShowSplashScreenSpinner" value="false"/>

Methods

• splashscreen.show
• splashscreen.hide

splashscreen.hide

Dismiss the splash screen.

navigator.splashscreen.hide();

BlackBerry 10, WP8, iOS Quirk

The config.xml file's AutoHideSplashScreen setting must be false. To delay hiding the splash screen for two seconds, add a timer such as the following in the deviceready event handler:

    setTimeout(function() {
        navigator.splashscreen.hide();
    }, 2000);

splashscreen.show

Displays the splash screen.

navigator.splashscreen.show();

Your application cannot call navigator.splashscreen.show() until the app has started and the deviceready event has fired. But since typically the splash screen is meant to be visible before your app has started, that would seem to defeat the purpose of the splash screen. Providing some configuration in config.xml will automatically show the splash screen immediately after your app launch and before it has fully started and received the deviceready event. See Icons and Splash Screens for more information on doing this configuration. For this reason, it is unlikely you need to call navigator.splashscreen.show() to make the splash screen visible for app startup.