Custom Android themes and splash screens with Qt?

Kostas

If I add a predefined theme without the action bar in AndroidManifest.xml the action bar is succesfuly not displayed :

<activity android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Holo.NoActionBar.Fullscreen" .../>

However if I create my own simple theme in android/res/values/themes.xml :

<resources>
    <color name="background">#ff0000</color>
    <style name="MyTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.NoActionBar.Fullscreen">
        <item name="android:windowBackground">@color/background</item>
    </style>
</resources>

and set it in AndroidManifest.xml :

<activity android:theme="@style/MyTheme" .../>

In this case the application starts without the action bar and then instantly shows the action bar again with an annoying flickering.

I need the theme to have a smooth transition between the launching of the app and the moment my application has control of the display. In my case, just a background color is enough and then I show my splash screen using QML.

I tried setting

meta-data android:name="android.app.splash_screen_drawable"

but there is still a black screen displayed for a few frames between the moment the android splash image disappears and before the QML is loaded. The color black is actually the background color of the android theme. It would be white with a Light theme. This is why I'm trying to setup a custom theme which avoids the flickering problem but then I can not get the action bar to disappear...

Am I doing something wrong or does Qt interfere with the theme upon launching ?

MajidKamali

https://forum.qt.io/topic/38925/qt-on-android-working-example-of-a-splash-screen/16
Benlau's post

Kostas

Thank you, that's a great post.

However the initial problem I stated is still there :
When I use a custom FULLSCREEN theme, the Qt app seems to override the setting.

<resources>
    <color name="background">#ff0000</color>

    <style name="MyTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo">
        <item name="android:windowBackground">@color/background</item>
    </style>

    <style name="MyThemeFullscreen" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.NoActionBar.Fullscreen">
        <item name="android:windowBackground">@color/background</item>
    </style>
</resources>

android:theme="@style/MyTheme"           // works
android:theme="@style/MyThemeFullscreen" // does not work

Suppaman

Try the solution explained here:

https://falsinsoft.blogspot.com/2017/07/qml-show-android-native-splash-screen.html

sassanh

@Kostas Where you able to solve it?