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My Xamarin app is about two years in the making. Android 12 introduced a new splash screen. I have been designing my app in Windows Visual Studio.
I have read through a few links about how to migrate the splash screen but it involves using Android Studio, which I am not using to develop in.
So I am wondering if anyone can give me some guidance on how to keep my original splash screen versus the new Android 12 or if that is even possible.
Right now the splash screen shows my App Icon with a white background.
I found the following https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android/issues/6517
but I am unsure of how to do the work arounds they speak of.
For example one guy states the following:
Download https://dl.google.com/android/maven2/androidx/core/core-splashscreen/1.0.0-alpha02/core-splashscreen-1.0.0-alpha02.aar
Create a new Android Bindings Project
Add core-splashscreen-1.0.0-alpha02.aar to the Bindings Project
(Optional?) set the $(TargetFrameworkVersion) of the Binding Project to v12.0
But I am not of the process to do those steps.
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Can you share a demo about splash screen in Android 12？I download this demo from this link, And set the target-framework to android 12, Splash screen could be shown, but it will have a white screen before the splash screen appear.
If you want to binding library with AAR, you can refer to this step by step doc: binding an aar
The splash screen that shows currently on android 12 is the appIcon. Previously it showed my splash screen. Xamarin released yesterday https://github.com/xamarin/AndroidX/pull/521
which I thought would fix the issue but it does not. I am still unclear as to how to get my splash screen to show
Can you share a demo about it?
@Leon Lu (Shanghai Wicresoft Co,.Ltd.) The issue I am speaking of is on github https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android/issues/6517
Android 12 deprecates the legacy splashscreen and uses the new google one
I am a long developer doing the work of a team, I dont have the time to make samples, I am sorry.
Here is the documentation form android: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/splash-screen
@Leon Lu (Shanghai Wicresoft Co,.Ltd.) i am a single developer on this project I dont have a lot of time.
This is the link the Xamarin team said to migrate the splash screen.
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/splash-screen/migrate
However anything under Android 12 is now using a default droid image for the icon (at least on simulators i have not tried actual devices)
In the migration link I sent you it states: If your existing splash screen is implemented using a custom theme that overrides android:windowBackground, the system replaces your custom splash screen with a default Android system splash screen on Android 12 and higher (which may not be your app’s intended experience).
My old splash was using android:windowBackground, so I removed that and now Android 12 is using the default Icon.
I asked on StackOverflow about phones not using android 12 and a guy told me: SplashScreen api support Android 12+ & SplashScreenCompat library api supports device below Android
I cannot find any documentation on SplashScreenCompat or how to support phones not using Android 12 and phones using Android 12.
Since the issue has been created in the github of xamarin form, you can follow it up there. And I found the issue link you posted has been closed, you can create a new one to raise developer awareness.
I figured it out, the instructions are extremely vague from Android and rather confusing.
Congrats, and thanks for your feedback. And could you please post an answer so that it will help others who have similar problems? Thanks in advance.
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hi @Sethlsaacks-9226: can you guide for me about fix or send link guide help me how about fix it?Thanks you.
@Le Trung Thong (DPS.FMS) if you still need more help than what the guy said below, let me know.
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The following link shows how to convert a Xamarin.Android app to use Xamarin.AndroidX.Core.SplashScreen using the standard Xamarin Application icon. Just replace the app icons with your own app icons.
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Doesnt work on my device.
Samsung Galaxy note 10 lite (android 12)
Splash screen is white, no logo.
I've just re-tested the XamarinBasicSplashScreen app on 3 Samsung devices - Galaxy S20 5G Android 12, Galaxy S8 Android 12 and Galaxy Tab S7 Android 13. They all display the Xamarin.Android application icon. I've got no idea why your Galaxy Note 10 Lite will not display the same application icon.
A couple of questions though.
Do you do a cold start each time you launch the app? Please note, you will not see the icon on a warm start.
Are you building it as you downloaded it without any changes?
Have you modified it with your own icons?
You could try to uncomment the line System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000); in the MainActivity to introduce an artificial delay.