splash screen

iPhone HTML apps startup image FAQ: How do I set the startup image (splash screen) for my iPad or iPhone HTML app?

This quick blurb from the Apple developer documentation leads us to the answer:

On iOS, similar to native applications, you can specify a startup image that is displayed while your web application launches. This is especially useful when your web application is offline.

By default, a screenshot of the web application the last time it was launched is used. To set another startup image, add a "link" element to the webpage.

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Initializing our Java splash screen

Initializing the splash screen should be simple. We need to get an image to display on our Java splash screen, construct the splash screen, and then display it. Here's what a "splash screen initialization" method might look like:

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My Java splash screen source code

Next up we'll dig into our Java SplashScreen class to see how I've actually implemented the desired behavior.