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splashscreen.show

Displays the splash screen.

navigator.splashscreen.show();

Description

This method displays the application's splash screen.

Supported Platforms

Amazon Fire OS
Android
iOS
Windows Phone 7 and 8
Windows 8

Quick Example

navigator.splashscreen.show();

Full Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Splashscreen Example</title>

    <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="cordova.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">

    // Wait for device API libraries to load
    //
    document.addEventListener("deviceready", onDeviceReady, false);

    // device APIs are available
    //
    function onDeviceReady() {
        navigator.splashscreen.show();
    }

    </script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Example</h1>
  </body>
</html>

Your application can not call navigator.splashscreen.show() until the app has started and the [deviceready](../events/events.deviceready.html) event has fired. But since typically the splash screen is meant to be visible before your app has started, that would seem to defeat the purpose of the splash screen. Providing some configuration in config.xml will automatically [show](../inappbrowser/inappbrowser.html) the splash screen immediately after your app launch and before it has fully started and received the [deviceready](../events/events.deviceready.html) event. See Icons and Splash Screens for more information on doing this configuration. For this reason, it is unlikely you need to call navigator.splashscreen.show() to make the splash screen visible for app startup.