Hi,
I want to develop one game.
I have created two UI screens for the game using xml files. One of them is simple splashscreen with background and other one is having buttons to select several options.
What I want is,
When the game launches, it shows splashscreen for a while (like 2 seconds) and then shows the second screen automatically.
Can anyone please help me, that how can I do that?
If I can do that using activities and Intent, please inform me how can I do that.
Any link for that will be helpful.
I tried the book to look in to the book "Android, A programmer's Guide" but nothing is helpful
Thanks,
Mitul Modi

Did you try sending a delayed message to your first activity, when the timer pops you start the next activity. Have a look through the API demo app that comes with Android. Search for sendMessage in Android docs.

Thanks,
I will try that and let u know, if it works or not.

Hi,
I use code as follows. But the problem is that I am not getting the screen shown by main.xml file (first screen).
When I press back button from the screen viewed by menu.xml file (second view), it shows view by main.xml file (so it is there but doesn't come up). So now I don't understand why it doesn't come up in first place.


The code is as follows:

package com.naag;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;

import android.view.Window;
public class naag extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
super.onCreate(icicle);

//No Title bar will be displayed
requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
setContentView(R.layout.main);

try
{
Thread.sleep (2000);//delay for 2 seconds
}
catch (InterruptedException e)
{
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}


Intent menuLauch = new Intent (this, menu.class);
startActivity (menuLauch);

}
}


The menu.java file is as follows...

package com.naag;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Window;

public class menu extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle icicle)
{
super.onCreate(icicle);

//No Title bar will be displayed
requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
setContentView(R.layout.menu);
}
}

I have also changed AndroidManifest.xml to use intents..

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I tried this method for my second and third screen and it is working fine and perfectly.
So I don't understan, that why its not working for first and second screen. Is it due to delay?

I got third view by adding this code in menu.java file:

Button contactButton = (Button) findViewById (R.id.contact);
contactButton.setOnClickListener ( new Button.OnClickListener()
{
public void onClick (View v)
{
launchContact();
}
});

and creating method which lauch new activity called contact and Contact class which set view as shown in 3.jpg file.
I can go from that contact screen to menu screen and menu screen to first screen shown in 4.jpg.

There are

By changing setContentView(R.layout.menu); after setContentView(R.layout.main); doesn't help.
As it provides only second view and that is without first even show up and its not there in history stack.

So please help me in this problem.

Thanks 4 your reply.

This is the image of second screen of the application ...

Image of third screen displayed by clicking contact me button on menu.

This is the screen shot when I press from the menu view. So this is loaded but is not displed at first time..

Also I want that when user enters in the menu screen, it should not return to this screen or this image must be clickble to retrun to menu.

I hope u get my point.

Thansk.

Hi Here is how I do my splash screen. It displays for 5000 ms before my main menu kicks in...



Note, in my case, the xml file defining the splash screen is R.layout.splash screen and the class that defines my main menu is the MainMenu.class as you can see from the line




Cheers,
--D

Thanks,
It worked perfectly.
But can you tell me what is wrong in my method?
If u can inform me that, it will be of great help me to understand.

Cheers,----

I'm glad it worked..

As for your why your method did not work, what is the xml file defining your splash screen? I dont see you settingContentView on this splash view?? It seems like you call



Then you send your thread to sleep for 2000ms, then right after that you start the Activity with the main menu Intent. Thats why I'm wondering where your call to your splash screen is. Using a Handler like what I did is the best way because you schedule on the message queue of the current thread and you can schedule an action on the message queue and you can specify how long to wait in the message queue before the runnable that calls the startActivity on the MainMienu Intent waits. Thus your splash screen just waits.......Tale a look at the API docs for Handler...

ps. When you post your code, use the "java" tags to surround any code that you post so that your code is formated in the forum and is easier to read.. its painful trying to read your code

Thanks for your coments.
Now I understnad the problem lil bit..
And I will pu java tag for sure from net time...

Thanks for the Tip..