How to remove gray screen before splash screen - Ionic 4

Question

Has someone managed to remove the gray screen when launching an ionic app from an android device? Is there a way to remove this annoying gray screen?

Answer 1

Add

xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

and

xmlns:cdv="http://cordova.apache.org/ns/1.0"

( if not present) inside you widget tag in you config.xml present in the root of your project.

Then replace android:theme value of your main activity with

@android:style/Theme.Light.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen

Thats it. You need not add any custom styles (If you don't want).

Answer 2

for me i added this code in style.xml file: /Users/User/Development/project/platforms/android/app/src/main/res/values/styles.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <style name="SplashTheme"  parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
      <item name="android:windowIsTranslucent">true</item>
      <item name="android:windowBackground">@android:color/transparent</item>
      <item name="android:windowContentOverlay">@null</item>
      <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
      <item name="android:windowIsFloating">false</item>
     <item name="android:backgroundDimEnabled">false</item>
    
</style>
</resources>

and edited my AndroidManifest.xml File : android:theme="@style/SplashTheme" added that to the activity