Add A Splash Screen To An IonicFramework Project
It is always nice to have splash screens in your application. It is a great way to get your branding out, and show that your application is currently loading. No one likes to see a blank white screen for five seconds during launch.
Lucky for us, it is incredibly simple to add a splash screen to our Ionic project. Using Apache Cordova’s Splashscreen plugin, we can add a splash to our application with just two lines in our config.xml file.
Add iOS and Android platformsShell
ionic platform add android
ionic platform add ios
To take advantage of Apache Cordova’s splash screen plugin, add it to your project by running:
Apache Cordova Splash ScreenShell
cordova plugin add org.apache.cordova.splashscreen
Now this is where the Cordova documentation gets a little sketchy. It claims you must add the following to your config.xml, but yet it doesn’t work.
config.xmlXHTML
<preference name="SplashScreen" value="splash" />
<preference name="SplashScreenDelay" value="3000" />
Instead you must change value=”splash” with value=”screen”. When you’ve done this, your Android and iOS builds will display a splash screen on application launch for 3000 milliseconds. You can alter this time with whatever you’d like or dismiss the splash screen at the end of your $ionicPlatform.ready() method by running navigator.splashscreen.hide()
You can find the splash screen images in the platforms/android/res and platforms/ios/{project_name}/Resources/splash directories. For Android, you must navigate to each of the screen density / orientation directories to make your changes.
Recommended splash screen sizes are as follows:
Platform Orientation Resolution
Android MDPI Landscape 480×320
Android MDPI Portrait 320×480
Android HDPI Landscape 800×480
Android HDPI Portrait 480×800
Android XHDPI Landspace 1280×720
Android XHDPI Portrait 720×1280
iPhone Retina Portrait 640×960
iPhone Portrait 320×480
iPad Retina Portrait 1536×2048
iPad Portrait 768×1024
iPad Retina Landscape 2048×1536
iPad Landscape 1024×768
You can find more information regarding icons and splash screens via Apache Cordova’s official documentation.
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