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Multi-resolution splash screen on Android

Someone can help me understand how I can change splash screen for Android in multiresolution?

How I should set it to make it working both with landscape and portrait?

How I should set it to make it working with different resolutions?

Thanks!

— asked July 5th 2011 by Libero Rignanese
  • android
  • landscape
  • portrait
  • resolution
  • splash
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  • Accepted Answer

    My best advice would be to create a new project using Studio (or Developer, both work in this case). This will create the following directories under Resources/android/images.

    • res-long-land-hdpi
    • res-long-land-ldpi
    • res-long-port-hdpi
    • res-long-port-ldpi
    • res-notlong-land-hdpi
    • res-notlong-land-ldpi
    • res-notlong-land-mdpi
    • res-notlong-port-hdpi
    • res-notlong-port-ldpi
    • res-notlong-port-mdpi

    From there, you can simply update the splash screens you want depending on the resolution you want. Here is a more technical explanation from the Android site of what each mode does.

    — answered July 5th 2011 by Christian Brousseau
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    • It works well!

      — commented July 6th 2011 by Libero Rignanese

    • Hi - I have used these directories and works well on MOST devices, but the Droid X has an extra long screen so the splash image is stretched. Being that this is the most commonly used device for the apps developed at my company, this is a BIG problem! I tried using an xlong directory but no luck. Could anyone advise on how to address this? Thanks in advance!

      — commented July 25th 2012 by Amy H

    • Amy, did you put a 480x800 splash screen in the res-long-port-hdpi directory? If so, what are the dimensions of a Droid X screen?

      — commented July 25th 2012 by Shawn Lipscomb

    • Hi Shawn, I did put a 480x800 in the res-long-port-hdpi directory. The Droid screen is 480 x 854

      — commented July 25th 2012 by Amy H

    • Untested: I saw a reference to res-HHHxWWW (the larger pixel dimension coming first…e.g. drawable-800x480 and drawable-854x480). You might try that.

      — commented July 25th 2012 by Shawn Lipscomb

    • Thanks for the suggestion - tried it but unfortunately it did not use the splash screen inserted in that folder. Perhaps the high port overrides it, because I also did not receive an error on the directory itself. I will try renaming both directories… Of course this might cause problems on screens that are high dpi but different size, right?

      — commented July 25th 2012 by Amy H

    • Yes, Android will find the next best match and use that image, resizing it if necessary.

      — commented July 25th 2012 by Shawn Lipscomb

    • Haha! I figured it out… screen size is the least prioritized item so I had to create a folder named "res-long-port-hdpi-854x480". This worked. "res-854x480" does not work because it is deprioritized next to folders that define the long, port, or hdpi. This documentation was helpful but not comprehensive: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/providing-resources.html#BestMatch

      — commented July 25th 2012 by Amy H

    • thanks Shawn, for putting me in the right direction!

      — commented July 25th 2012 by Amy H

    • Amy, you're welcome. I'm glad you got it figured out.

      — commented July 27th 2012 by Shawn Lipscomb

  • Hi Libero, there appears to be an open bug ticket on changing the 'splash screen' for multiple resolutions at: http://jira.appcelerator.org/browse/TIMOB-3516

    The link provides information on how to modify the builder.py file to fix the issue.

    — answered July 5th 2011 by Kasthuri Jayarajah
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  • I would like to add something to the fix, I am doing it here because I cannot comment on JIRA :
    They say to change "if re.search(pattern, path):" to "if re.search(pattern, path.replace("\", "/")):" \ is an escape character in python, so it should be "if re.search(pattern, path.replace("\", "/")):" 2\ in stead of 1.
    The fix worked for me just fine thank's for the usefull post :)

    — answered July 6th 2011 by Ahmed BOUSSADIA
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  • Look up "9-patch images". In Titanium these will likely not work for stuff inside your app, but they will work in your splash screen.

    — answered March 6th 2013 by remko posthuma
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    • The top part of this link (http://docs.appcelerator.com/titanium/latest/#!/guide/Icons_and_Splash_Screens-section-29004897_IconsandSplashScreens-Androidsplashscreenconsiderations)
      implies that 9-patch images are supported for splash screens, but scroll down and a note in yellow says they are not, and references this Jira item: (TIMOB-10801).

      — commented December 10th 2013 by Tom Gimpel
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