I've been using a similar method and it works quite well. I start a timer when your js starts loading and subtract that from the current time removing the splash screen after 5 seconds minus that interval. That normalized the load time across iOS and different classes of Android devices.

Should also note that with PhoneGap 2.5 on Build the splash screen starts out covering the entire screen, then the image shifts down to show signal/batter bar at the top. Reverting to PhoneGap 2.3 fixes the issue.

There is a config setting, <preference name="fullscreen" value="true" />, that should fix this. Have you tried it?

Yes, but that makes the entire app full screen, which is not desired by our clients. They only want the splash to be full screen, which <= 2.3 does.

Looks like this is fixable if you're not using Build -

http://stackoverflow.com/qu...

Community Topic -

http://community.phonegap.c...

Ah, cool, thanks for sharing this Mike!

"I then wrote a bit of JavaScript that made use of the PhoneGap Screen Shot API:" -- I think you meant Splash Screen API.

Great post, I had this problem but imagined I did something something wrong.
One the other hand at some early build I had splash was displaying a spinner in the middle that was nice feature...is there any XML config setting to trigger spinner how while splash is on?

Thank you,
Radu

one mention, I have:
<preference name="show-splash-screen-spinner" value="true" />

set but still missing spinner.

@Adam: Fixed, thanks.

@Radu: Um, if you don't see it in the docs, then I'd say no.

Hi, Mr. Raymond !
I created splash screen with some code in Activity like this :
super.setIntegerProperty("splashscreen", R.drawable.splash);
super.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/www/index.html", 3000);

and place some images in res/drawable folder.
its work perfectly ! :)

Mikhuda, right, you can do it via native code too. But this article was specifically about how to do it via PhoneGap Build.

Can you talk about including admob in phonegap build using Dreamweaver. No one seems to know how to do this. If not Dreamweaver then can you do a tutorial with phonegap and admob. Monetization is very important for developers.

I've yet to work with Admob. I tried Google Adsense once for a PG ad (not sure if I was supposed to, but I did ;).

I'll put this in my "To Blog" email folder, but no promises.

I don't use DW. My editor of choice is Brackets.

Yes it's against their policies, you have to use admob or they eventually will ban your adsense account. I wish I could use adsense though, alot easier and better.

On the other hand, what's the differences between Brackets and Dreamweaver?

"On the other hand, what's the differences between Brackets and Dreamweaver?"
Night and Day. ;)

Brackets is a light weight editor focused on HTML/JS/CSS development *only*. Check it out: http://brackets.io

Be warned though, it is still in development so it is missing a few features.

Any advantages over Dreamweaver for strictly phonegap mobile apps?

Hmm, maybe not. I just find Brackets to be more to my liking. DW feels a bit "heavy." Editors are ver much a personal choice though.

ok thanks for the prompt response!

While I have you on the phone....... I'm currently using json to load wordpress blogs. When I have a blog that have a lot of posts it takes a long time for the application to load while it's retrieving the posts.

Is there a way I can store the posts locally once it's downloaded, or at least the post titles to a local database. Therefore improving the performance and allowing them to access the posts while offline?

I did this with sqllite with objective c but it was with xml and objective c. Wondering what would be the best way to do this with phonegap etc..

PhoneGap supports 3 types of local storage:

1) LocalStorage
2) WebSQL (which is the same as SQLite pretty much)
3) FIle System

Check out the WebSQL stuff. It would be perfect for this.

ok thanks! Do you have any tutorials or examples?

Of course. ;) Search for phonegap here.

I meant with json, websql and phonegap maybe even with wordpress would be awesome.

Right, I do. As I said, search for phonegap, and the titles should lead you to the right place.

ok thanks

WebSQL is broken in Phonegap 2.7 on Android. They recommend using localStorage instead.

http://www.infil00p.org/wha...

Ugh, really? And this comment makes no sense:

"localStorage is once again persistant, this breaks WebSQL on Android 4.x"

Why would a fix to localStorage (and who knew it was broken) break WebSQL?

Just read the details. (Which doesn't explain why LocalStorage is involved.) I know that WebSQL is deprecated, but w/o IndexedDB, this is a *huge* issue. LocalStorage is *not* appropriate for storing large amounts of ad hoq data.

Shit. Shit. Shit.

Excellent post, however I am having problems getting my splash screen to display, I've gone as far as downloading the phone gap starter app from the internet and changing the config.xml to use my images but when i start the app on my device (nexus 7) i am not seeing the splash screen. Any suggestion as to why the splash screen would not be showing?

Hmm, nothing comes to mind. I'd maybe consider posting the question to the PGB support (and please let us know if you figure it out).

Creating all of the splash pages and icons in different sizes became too time consuming for us. Every time we wanted to change our splash or icon images we had to re-create them in all of the different device sizes. We created a simple tool that allowed us to automate the process and even integrate it into our build process.

Check it out at:
http://www.5starstechnology...

Hi guys, i need some help. my splash screen is not working.i don't know what is the problem.may be you can help me

Hi, thx for your great tut. What if we targeting both tablets and mobiles? How could we define a splash screen that supports both horizontal/vertical and both for iphone and ipad screen size?

You can use multiple gap:splash tags. Check the docs for more info.