Simple Splash Screen

Question

I am trying to follow a simple splash screen example I found. But I cannot get it to even compile.

First this is the source of the example:

http://www.anddev.org/simple_splash_screen-t811.html

I am trying to put in into a form that would work for my program.

I created a class in Eclipse for this splash screen

com.ePN.ePNMobileAndroid.ePNSplash

Here is my current main.xml file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
     android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
     android:layout_height="fill_parent">
     <ImageView android:id="@+id/splashscreen" android:layout_width="wrap_content"
          android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:src="@drawable/com.ePN.ePNMobileAndroid.splash"
          android:layout_gravity="center"/>
     <TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Hello World, splash"/>
</LinearLayout> 

And the class itself

package com.ePN.ePNMobileAndroid;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.os.Message;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.ImageView; 

public class ePNSplash extends Activity {
    private static final int STOPSPLASH = 0;
    //time in milliseconds
    private static final long SPLASHTIME = 3000;

    private ImageView splash;

    //handler for splash screen
    private Handler splashHandler = new Handler() {
         /* (non-Javadoc)
          * @see android.os.Handler#handleMessage(android.os.Message)
          */
         @Override
         public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
              switch (msg.what) {
              case STOPSPLASH:
                   //remove SplashScreen from view
                  splash.setVisibility(View.GONE);
                   break;
              }
              super.handleMessage(msg);
         }
    };

   /** Called when the activity is first created. */
   @Override
   public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
       super.onCreate(icicle);
       setContentView(R.layout.main);
              splash = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.splashscreen);
              Message msg = new Message();
              msg.what = STOPSPLASH;
              splashHandler.sendMessageDelayed(msg, SPLASHTIME);
   } 
}

The XML has an error saying:

"no resource found that matches the given name (at src with value '@drawable/com.ePN.ePNMobileAndroid.splash')"

I have tried every way I can think to modify the android:src but it will not work.

The class is in error because it cannot resolve r_id.splashscreen in the find by id line.

This is all greek to me, how should this trivial xml and/or java file be modified to make this work?

Thanx

Julian

Answer 1

In android:src="@drawable/com.ePN.ePNMobileAndroid.splash" what are you trying to display in this ImageView? This needs to be a reference to something in your res/drawable directory. So for example if you had a file in res/drawable named my_splash_image.png then the XML attribute would be android:src="@drawable/my_splash_image". Whatever you're trying to do with that package naming inside that attribute isn't going to work.

Looking at the example you are working from, it looks like they had a res/drawable/splash.png file that they were using, that they didn't include in their forum post.