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I am trying to make a splash screen for my app. It works really well for Android 11 but for Android 12 it just shows a blank screen
Android 11 Splash
Android 12 Splash
I have found that this bug is listed on github
https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android/issues/6517
but the work around does not work for me as I get these build errors.
I have a stackoverflow question here
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71135199/xamarin-splash-screen-android-11-vs-android-12
and a repro that reproduces my issue. Inside is also an example of the workaround not working
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I am trying to make a splash screen for my app.
To display a splash screen on Android, we need to create another Activity to show the splash view. Please create a custom theme and apply it to an Activity that exhibits the splash screen. Here is the related doc, you could refer to it: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/android/user-interface/splash-screen
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Hi, @JarvanZhang . While your answer is for Xamarin.Forms, this doesn't help us with our specific need of creating a splash screen for Android 12 using the new splash screen API. Documentation for something like this seems to be non-existent. Is there an example we can follow for creating a splash screen for Android 12?
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@Micah Armantrout Did you find any solution or any update? I am having the same issue.
Hi @JarvanZhang , appreciate if you or someone knows and could share the solution for Android 12 that works with other version. Thanks.
@Raaz Paul I have updated my repro with a potential solution with two issues
Hi, Android provides new api for the splash screen on Android 12. Here is the related doc, you could refer to: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/splash-screen/migrate#java
However, to use the api, we need to call SplashScreen.installSplashScreen function, the method is not wrapped in Xamarin.Android. Here is the link about the feature request, you could focus on it: https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/issues/14849
This is nice but you have to use a alpha java library to get this to work and even then I have not been very successful. I don't like to use alpha libraries in production code. The Answer I provided does not use that alpha library.
Android 12 provide new splash screen Api, the android:windowBackground code doesn't work on Android 12. The two issues is cause by this.
I have updated my repro with a potential solution with two issues
https://github.com/MicahArmantrout/SplashScreen/tree/main/SplashScreen