cordova-plugin-splashscreen
This plugin displays and hides a splash screen while your web application is launching. Using its methods you can also show and hide the splash screen manually.
Installation
// npm hosted (new) id
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-splashscreen
// you may also install directly from this repo
cordova plugin add https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-splashscreen.git
Supported Platforms
- Browser
Platform Splash Screen Image Configuration
Example Configuration
In the top-level config.xml
file (not the one in platforms
), add configuration elements like those specified here.
The value of the "src" attribute is relative to the project root directory and NOT to the www
directory (see Directory structure
below). You can name the source image file whatever you like. The internal name in the application is automatically determined by Cordova.
Directory structure:
projectRoot
hooks
platforms
plugins
www
css
img
js
res
screen
<preference name="SplashScreenDelay" value="10000" />
Preferences
config.xml
-
AutoHideSplashScreen
(boolean, default totrue
). Indicates whether to hide splash screen automatically or not. The splash screen is hidden after the amount of time specified in theSplashScreenDelay
preference.<preference name="AutoHideSplashScreen" value="true" />
-
SplashScreenDelay
(number, default to 3000). Amount of time in milliseconds to wait before automatically hide splash screen.<preference name="SplashScreenDelay" value="3000" />
This value used to be in seconds (but is now milliseconds) so values less than 30 will continue to be treated as seconds. (Consider this a deprecated patch that will disapear in some future version.)
To disable the splashscreen add the following preference to
config.xml
:<preference name="SplashScreenDelay" value="0"/>
-
FadeSplashScreen
(boolean, defaults totrue
): Set tofalse
to prevent the splash screen from fading in and out when its display state changes.<preference name="FadeSplashScreen" value="false"/>
-
FadeSplashScreenDuration
(float, defaults to500
): Specifies the number of milliseconds for the splash screen fade effect to execute.<preference name="FadeSplashScreenDuration" value="750"/>
Note:
FadeSplashScreenDuration
is included intoSplashScreenDelay
, for example if you have<preference name="SplashScreenDelay" value="3000" />
and<preference name="FadeSplashScreenDuration" value="1000"/>
defined inconfig.xml
:- 00:00 - splashscreen is shown
- 00:02 - fading has started
- 00:03 - splashscreen is hidden
Turning the fading off via
<preference name="FadeSplashScreen" value="false"/>
technically means fading duration to be0
so that in this example the overall splash screen delay will still be 3 seconds.Note: This only applies to the application startup - you need to take the fading timeout into account when manually showing/hiding the splash screen in your application's code:
navigator.splashscreen.show(); window.setTimeout(function () { navigator.splashscreen.hide(); }, splashDuration - fadeDuration);
Quirks
You can use the following preferences in your config.xml
:
<platform name="browser">
<preference name="SplashScreen" value="/images/browser/splashscreen.jpg" /> <!-- defaults to "/img/logo.png" -->
<preference name="AutoHideSplashScreen" value="true" /> <!-- defaults to "true" -->
<preference name="SplashScreenDelay" value="3000" /> <!-- defaults to "3000" -->
<preference name="SplashScreenBackgroundColor" value="green" /> <!-- defaults to "#464646" -->
<preference name="ShowSplashScreen" value="false" /> <!-- defaults to "true" -->
<preference name="SplashScreenWidth" value="600" /> <!-- defaults to "170" -->
<preference name="SplashScreenHeight" value="300" /> <!-- defaults to "200" -->
</platform>
Note: SplashScreen
value should be absolute in order to work in a sub-page.
Methods
- splashscreen.show
- splashscreen.hide
splashscreen.hide
Dismiss the splash screen.
navigator.splashscreen.hide();
splashscreen.show
Displays the splash screen.
navigator.splashscreen.show();
Your application cannot call navigator.splashscreen.show()
until the application has
started and the deviceready
event has fired. But since typically the splash
screen is meant to be visible before your application has started, that would seem to
defeat the purpose of the splash screen. Providing any parameters in
config.xml
will automatically show
the splash screen immediately after your
application is launched and before it has fully started and received the deviceready
event. For this reason, it is unlikely you will need to call navigator.splashscreen.show()
to make the splash
screen visible for application startup.