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title: Splashscreen
description: Control the splash screen for your app.
---
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# cordova-plugin-splashscreen
This plugin is required to work with splash screens. This plugin displays and hides a splash screen during application launch.
Report issues with this plugin on the [Apache Cordova issue tracker][Apache Cordova issue tracker].
## Installation
// npm hosted (new) id
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-splashscreen
// you may also install directly from this repo
cordova plugin add https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-splashscreen.git
## Supported Platforms
- Amazon Fire OS
- Android
- BlackBerry 10
- iOS
- Windows Phone 7 and 8
- Windows (`cordova-windows` version >= 4.4.0 is required)
- Browser
__Note__: Extended splashscreen does not require the plugin on Windows (as opposed to Android and iOS) in case you don't use the plugin API, i.e. programmatic hide/show.
## Example Configuration
In the top-level `config.xml` file (not the one in `platforms`), add configuration elements like those specified here.
Please notice that the value of the "src" attribute is relative to the project root directory and not to the www directory (see `Directory structure` below). You can name the source image whatever you like. The internal name in the app is determined by Cordova.
Directory structure:
```
projectRoot
hooks
platforms
plugins
www
css
img
js
res
screen
android
ios
windows
```
```xml
```
## Preferences
#### config.xml
- `AutoHideSplashScreen` (boolean, default to `true`). Indicates whether to hide splash screen automatically or not. Splash screen hidden after amount of time specified in the `SplashScreenDelay` preference.
```xml
```
- `SplashScreenDelay` (number, default to 3000). Amount of time in milliseconds to wait before automatically hide splash screen.
```xml
```
Note also that this value used to be seconds, and not milliseconds, so values less than 30 will still be treated as seconds. ( Consider this a deprecated patch that will disapear in some future version. )
To disable the splashscreen add the following preference to `config.xml`:
```xml
```
**iOS Quirk**: to disable the splashscreen on `ios` platform you should also add `` to `config.xml`.
- `FadeSplashScreen` (boolean, defaults to `true`): Set to `false` to
prevent the splash screen from fading in and out when its display
state changes.
```xml
```
- `FadeSplashScreenDuration` (float, defaults to `500`): Specifies the
number of milliseconds for the splash screen fade effect to execute.
```xml
```
_Note_: `FadeSplashScreenDuration` is included into `SplashScreenDelay`, for example if you have `` and `` defined in `config.xml`:
- 00:00 - splashscreen is shown
- 00:02 - fading has started
- 00:03 - splashscreen is hidden
Turning the fading off via `` technically means fading duration to be `0` so that in this example the overall splash delay will still be 3 seconds.
_Note_: This only applies to the app startup - you need to take the fading timeout into account when manually showing/hiding the splashscreen in the code:
```javascript
navigator.splashscreen.show();
window.setTimeout(function () {
navigator.splashscreen.hide();
}, splashDuration - fadeDuration);
```
- `ShowSplashScreenSpinner` (boolean, defaults to `true`): Set to `false`
to hide the splash-screen spinner.
```xml
```
### Android Quirks
In your `config.xml`, you can add the following preferences:
```xml
```
"SplashMaintainAspectRatio" preference is optional. If set to true, splash screen drawable is not stretched to fit screen, but instead simply "covers" the screen, like CSS "background-size:cover". This is very useful when splash screen images cannot be distorted in any way, for example when they contain scenery or text. This setting works best with images that have large margins (safe areas) that can be safely cropped on screens with different aspect ratios.
The plugin reloads splash drawable whenever orientation changes, so you can specify different drawables for portrait and landscape orientations.
"SplashShowOnlyFirstTime" preference is also optional and defaults to `true`. When set to `true` splash screen will only appear on application launch. However, if you plan to use `navigator.app.exitApp()` to close application and force splash screen appear on next launch, you should set this property to `false` (this also applies to closing the App with Back button).
### Browser Quirks
You can use the following preferences in your `config.xml`:
```xml
```
__Note__: `SplashScreen` value should be absolute in order to work in a sub-page. The `SplashScreen` value is used only for the browser platform. The value will be ignored for other platforms.
### iOS Quirks
- In iOS, the splashscreen images are called launch images. These images are mandatory on iOS.
### Windows Quirks
- `SplashScreenSpinnerColor` (string, defaults to system accent color): hash, rgb notation or CSS color name.
```xml
```
- `SplashScreenBackgroundColor` (string, defaults to #464646): hex notation.
```xml
```
## Methods
- splashscreen.show
- splashscreen.hide
## splashscreen.hide
Dismiss the splash screen.
```js
navigator.splashscreen.hide();
```
### BlackBerry 10, WP8, iOS Quirk
The `config.xml` file's `AutoHideSplashScreen` setting must be
`false`. To delay hiding the splash screen for two seconds, add a
timer such as the following in the `deviceready` event handler:
```js
setTimeout(function() {
navigator.splashscreen.hide();
}, 2000);
```
## splashscreen.show
Displays the splash screen.
```js
navigator.splashscreen.show();
```
Your application cannot call `navigator.splashscreen.show()` until the app has
started and the `deviceready` event has fired. But since typically the splash
screen is meant to be visible before your app has started, that would seem to
defeat the purpose of the splash screen. Providing some configuration in
`config.xml` will automatically `show` the splash screen immediately after your
app launch and before it has fully started and received the `deviceready`
event. For this reason, it is unlikely you need to call `navigator.splashscreen.show()` to make the splash
screen visible for app startup.
[Apache Cordova issue tracker]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20CB%20AND%20status%20in%20%28Open%2C%20%22In%20Progress%22%2C%20Reopened%29%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20AND%20component%20%3D%20%22Plugin%20Splashscreen%22%20ORDER%20BY%20priority%20DESC%2C%20summary%20ASC%2C%20updatedDate%20DESC