Apache Cordova splash screens not showing in Android

Question

I am running Apache Cordova 3.6.3-0.2.13. And I try to get the splash screens working. I have followed the documentation on http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/3.6.0/config_ref_images.md.html#Icons%20and%20Splash%20Screens. And the icons are working, but no success for the splash screens. We are also using the Ionic framework (version 1.2.8) on top of Cordova.

What I have done:

Added icons and splash screens to config.xml from the project root:

<preference name="SplashScreen" value="splash"/>
<preference name="SplashScreenDelay" value="10000"/>
<platform name="android">
  <icon src="icons/icon.png"/>

  <!-- you can use any density that exists in the Android project -->
  <splash src="icons/android-splash-land-hdpi.png" density="land-hdpi"/>
  <splash src="icons/android-splash-land-ldpi.png" density="land-ldpi"/>
  <splash src="icons/android-splash-land-mdpi.png" density="land-mdpi"/>
  <splash src="icons/android-splash-land-xhdpi.png" density="land-xhdpi"/>

  <splash src="icons/android-splash-port-hdpi.png" density="port-hdpi"/>
  <splash src="icons/android-splash-port-ldpi.png" density="port-ldpi"/>
  <splash src="icons/android-splash-port-mdpi.png" density="port-mdpi"/>
  <splash src="icons/android-splash-port-xhdpi.png" density="port-xhdpi"/>
</platform>

Ofcourse the icons directory exists and also the files are in place. When I build the project with ionic run android or cordova run android. The build process also creates the icons and splash screens into the platforms/android/res/drawable directory!

Also the config file located at platforms/android/res/xml/config.xml is correctly updated and the <preference> and <icon> and <splash> elements are in place.

I also tried with the org.apache.cordova.splashscreen plugin and also no success. I have added the plugin with ionic plugin add org.apache.cordova.splashscreen and also added onDeviceReady the code navigator.splashscreen.show();. But this also shows nothing.

What am I missing here?

Answer 1

Just had this problem myself. Change this

<preference name="SplashScreen" value="splash"/>

to

<preference name="SplashScreen" value="screen"/>

This fixed it.

source: http://forum.ionicframework.com/t/need-help-with-displaying-splash-screen-on-android-cordova-3-6/10436/12