[CB-9423] cordova-plugin-splashscreen is required for splashscreen Android

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.1.1
• Labels: Android Docs-6.x triaged
• Assignee: Sarangan Rajamanickam
• Reporter: Sebastien Lorber
• Created: 28/Jul/15 14:52
• Updated: 03/May/17 07:24
• Resolved: 21/Mar/16 22:09

Description

The current (5.1.1) documentation does mention that there is a "cordova-plugin-splashscreen"

But it does not say anything about it being required so that Splash Screen works.

According to my tests, using <splash> tags or splash preferences without installing the plugin has absolutly no effect at all.

Apache Cordova also offers special splash screen plugin which could be used to programmatically display and hide a splash screen during application launch https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-splashscreen

This makes us think that this plugin is ONLY useful to control the splash screen programmatically, while it is absolutly required for any splash screen to simply work at all. The documentation should rather be updated

Issue Links

• Blocked: CB-10688 Cordova Plugin Splashscreen Readme must have examples
• is cloned by: CB-9136 Android Splash documentation needs more details