Splash Screen with Sound inAndroid

Hello guys, got a good response from my first video which encouraged me to write my second blog.

In this blog i will show how to create a splash screen in android which also produces a sound on start up. So, lets get started.

Follow the steps correctly-

1) Create an Android Application Project.

2) Take an image file and name it as "logo.jpg" and save it in the "res/drawable-mdpi".

3) Go to "res/layout/activity_main.xml" and insert this code.

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"

    android:layout_width="match_parent"

    android:layout_height="match_parent"

    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"

    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"

    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"

    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"

    tools:context=".MainActivity"

    android:background="@drawable/logo" >

</RelativeLayout>

We have named our image file as "logo.jpg" so we are using the same name in "android:background " in the code. We can change this file name to whatever we want but the same should be the image filename.

4) Now go to "src/your_package_name/MainActivity.java" and insert the following code.

import android.media.MediaPlayer;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.os.Handler;

import android.app.Activity;

import android.content.Intent;

import android.view.Menu;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

      MediaPlayer mp;

      @Override

      protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

            setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

            mp = MediaPlayer.create(this, R.raw.music);

            mp.start();

            new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {

                  @Override

                  public void run() {

                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

                        Intent i = new Intent(MainActivity.this,NewActivity.class);

                        mp.stop();

                        startActivity(i);

                        finish();

                       

                  }

                 

            }, 5000);

      }

}

In this code we are using MediaPlayer class to play the audio on startup.

MediaPlayer mp;

mp = MediaPlayer.create(this, R.raw.music);

mp.start();

Then we are using the Handler class to create a delay of 5s. This handler class consists of run() function in which we are creating our new activity.Then this activity gets called after 5s.

5) Now go to "src/your_package_name" folder, right click there and create a new class. Lets name the class as "NewActivity.java" .Copy the below code in NewActivity.java.

import android.app.Activity;

import android.os.Bundle;

public class NewActivity  extends Activity {

      @Override

      protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

            setContentView(R.layout.new_activity);

      }

}

This class basically displays the text.

6) Now go to "res/layout" and right click there to create a new xml file.Lets name the file as "new_activity.xml" .Copy the below code in the new_activity.xml.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    android:layout_width="match_parent"

    android:layout_height="match_parent"

    android:orientation="vertical" >

   

    <TextView

        android:layout_width="wrap_content"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:text="Hello its a new Activity"/>

</LinearLayout>

7) Now the last thing, open the AndroidManifest.xml and we will create our new activity for "NewActivity.java".Simply copy paste the below code after the end of previous activity tag ie after "</activity>" .

<activity android:name="your_package_name.NewActivity" />

Now we are done. We have created our new Android Splash Screen with sound. Comment your problems and doubts. I will love to handle it.

Thank you.