[android-developers] Re: adding a splash screen to an APK

You could create a new application which displays a splash screen and
then loads the desired activity from your original application (as you
suggest above).
Make sure to finish() the splash screen activity once you have started
your desired activity.

On Aug 8, 6:46 pm, Avtar Khalsa <akhals...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> I am a bit new to android development, and am trying to implement a
> splash screen on top of an existing APK. The idea would be that the
> APK still runs exactly the same as before, but before it does, a
> splash screen displaying the developer's logo comes up for a few
> seconds.
>
> I know this is easy to do directly in the code for the original APK,
> but I am hoping to be able to accomplish it without editing that
> code.
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction for doing that? I am not
> even sure if it is possible, but it seems like I just need to make a
> new APK file that runs just the splash screen and then calls the other
> application.
>
> Thanks in advance!

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