[CB-12099] [SplashScreen] AutoHideSplashScreen not respected, Screen Flicker

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 4.0.0
• Component/s: Ionic
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Matt Thompson
• Created: 01/Nov/16 15:12
• Updated: 28/Mar/17 20:37

Description

I'm using Cordova (v6.4.0) and the Splashscreen plugin (v4.0.0) (https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-splashscreen).

The various splash screen images I set are displaying on both Android and iOS devices. However, on Android devices there is a white flash between the splash screen images and my app loading.

In my Cordova config.xml file, I have the following lines for the splash screen:

<preference name="SplashScreenDelay" value="2000" />
<preference name="ShowSplashScreenSpinner" value="false" />

I tried disabling the splash screen image from automatically hiding and increasing the delay before the splash screen hides by adding the additional following lines to config.xml:

<preference name="AutoHideSplashScreen" value="false" />
<preference name="SplashScreenDelay" value="10000" />

Because auto hide is false and the delay is 10 seconds, I should see the static loading image for a full 10 seconds, but on both iOS and Android it only displays for a second or two. I'm guessing that is the root of the problem.

Once auto hide can be disabled, I hoped to manually trigger hiding the splash screen within my app's main init function using:

navigator.splashscreen.hide(); 

Issue Links

• relates to: CB-11565 show Black screen before show a splash screen during application launch.
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #121
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #354
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #672