How to Create Splash Screen in Windows Phone ?

Splash Screen makes your App look good when it is loading initially . It might be a good idea to have a splash screen specially for the apps that takes some time to load.

How to Create Splash Screen in Windows Phone ?

You can create Splash Screen in Windows Phone in 2 ways

1. Use static splash screen image

2. Create a animated splash screen

By default , when a Windows Phone project(Silverlight) is created , SplashScreenimage.jpg file is created ans placed in the project folder.

You can replace this image with your image with the same size (480*800) pixels and setting the Build Action property to “Content”.

You can also create a animated splash screen by following the below steps

1. In the existing Windows Phone Project , create a new user control . Ex : SplashScreen.xaml

2. Declare BackgroundWorker and Popup objects . BackgroundWorker class is defined in the namespace System.ComponentModel; and PopUp class is defined in the namespace System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.

3. In the MainPage.xaml , Specify the Popup page to the SplashScreen usercontrol and set IsOpen property to true . Thsi will make sure that the splash screen is shown . After some time , when the RunWorkerCompleted event is triggtered , the popup is closed and the MainPage.xaml is shown.

public partial class MainPage : PhoneApplicationPage

{         // Constructor

BackgroundWorker BackgroundWork;

Popup pop;

public MainPage()

{

InitializeComponent();

pop = new Popup();

pop.IsOpen = true;

pop.Child = new SplashScreen();

BackgroundWork = new BackgroundWorker();

RunProcess();

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}

private void RunProcess()

{

BackgroundWork.RunWorkerCompleted += ((r, args) => { this.Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(() => { this.pop.IsOpen = false; }); });

BackgroundWork.DoWork += ((r, args) => { Thread.Sleep(1000); });

BackgroundWork.RunWorkerAsync();

}

}

You can also add some kind of animation in the SplashScreen.xaml user control to make it more appealing …