Splash Screen not working Android 12

Vinay Choudhary 1

I am using Xamarin Forms Splash screen using
<item name="android:windowBackground">@drawable/splash_screen</item> and creating a splash_screen.xml for it.
It was working fine until I migrated to Android 12. Now all I see is the blank screen when I load my Application.

Please help me as I am stuck as how to do it. There are articles for Android Studio but none for Xamarin Forms.

JessieZhang-MSFT 7,711 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2022-04-14T12:22:40.493+00:00

I tested the splash-screen sample , but I couldn't reproduce this problem. Could you please post a basic demo so that we can try to reproduce this problem on our side?
Vinay Choudhary 1 Reputation point

2022-04-14T16:07:43.903+00:00

Have you tried the sample to run on device having Android OS 12?? I am not getting this on devices below that.
JessieZhang-MSFT 7,711 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2022-04-15T09:41:24.687+00:00

yes, I tested on my android emulator(android 12). And during the first installation, there will be a brief blank page. However, after the first installation, there will be no such blank page after the next startup.
Vinay Choudhary 1 Reputation point

2022-04-15T10:24:28.867+00:00

Yes, this is what I am facing. During the fresh install there is a blank page and after that if you kill the application and click on the application, then you will first see the App Icon and then the logo. But prior to Android 12, we are always seeing the Logo. Is that a bug with Android 12?
JessieZhang-MSFT 7,711 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2022-04-18T03:12:36.917+00:00

Yes, it is a known issue. For more, you can check my answer. :)
Vinay Choudhary 1 Reputation point

2022-04-18T06:23:50.06+00:00

Ok...So will the blank screen will come when we download the Application from the Play Store or it will be replaced by Icon?
JessieZhang-MSFT 7,711 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2022-04-18T06:46:14.12+00:00

Please check my answer.

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JessieZhang-MSFT 7,711 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2022-04-18T03:11:55.73+00:00

Hello,

Yes, it was a known issue about the splash-screen after android 12.

But a prerelease version of Xamarin.AndroidX.Core.SplashScreen has been released 12 days ago.

You can check it here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Xamarin.AndroidX.Core.SplashScreen/1.0.0-beta02 .

So, you can try to install and update nuget Xamarin.AndroidX.Core.SplashScreen.

Best Regards,
Jessie Zhang

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Cezar Wagenheimer 11 Reputation points

2022-05-24T17:24:31.837+00:00

Hi JessieZhang-2116!

To make it work with Android 12 do I only need to install Xamarin.AndroidX.Core.SplashScreen or do I need to do something else?
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DanLanders 1 Reputation point

2022-08-15T20:51:02.77+00:00

You have already probably figured this out but it appears that you need the Android 12 SDK. If you are using 2019, this can be problematic as the Android 12 API requires Java 11 and there are some known issues that Microsoft has acknowledged.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/android/release-notes/12/12.0

VIsual Studio 2022 looks to be the easiest way.
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