Splash screen is one of the most vital screens in the application. It's the user's first experience with the application. Android 12 introduced splash screens as default behaviour along with the SplashScreen API. With these changes, it’s a good time to take a deep dive into splash screen implementation on Android.

In this talk, we'll take a deep dive into the new SplashScreen API and explore it using practical examples. We’ll start from the basics, like what is a splash screen and why it is important. After that we’ll learn how to customise the default splash screen in Android 12 and how to migrate legacy splash screen implementations. At the end, we’ll have a working splash screen implementation with a consistent experience across Android versions.

At the end of this talk, you should have a better understanding of splash screens in general, SplashScreen API and its capabilities and limitations, and how you can use that knowledge to make app startup a more consistent and delightful experience.

Splash screens can seem trivial at first, but are often misused and with multiple possible approaches of adding a splash screen in the past, they were often done wrong. Luckily, with the SplashScreen API introduced, there’s now a single solution to ensure consistency across codebases. If you’re an Android developer, odds are you’ll work with splash screens sooner or later, so join me in this journey and learn how to do it the right way!