Inflating a screen layout takes some times. On a cold start, it can cause the device to first display a blank screen before the first activity’s layout. A common technique is to use the app’s window background theme to fill this blank screen (eg with a branding icon). In this article, I will go further by showing how to animate this icon. The problem The window background technique Your layouts are inflated in a system view called the decor view. It’s this view that you see when the app launches before you first activity’s layout. The technique here is to fill this “blank screen” by styling this view with a drawable. Animate the background You have to use a drawable animation but it won’t launch alone, the trick here is to programmatically access the decor view to start it. : the animation will not be started as soon as we want (see : ) ERRATUM https://plus.google.com/u/0/102434905935244657491/posts/991fZAikgC6?cfem=1 Step by step Define a drawable animation to use as background Use it as window background theme in a specific style In the manifest, configure your splash screen activity to use it In your splash screen activity, recover the animation from the Decor View and start it Result A sample app is available on my github, happy reviewing :) _AnimatedSplashScreen - Sample app for an animated splashscreen (without blank screen on cold starts)_github.com jacquesgiraudel/AnimatedSplashScreen References : — Splash Screen the right way — Frame Animation in Android Android Developer at jacquesgiraudel.com

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