[Enhancement] Adding the ability to make Splash Screens cross platform solution

[AhmedAbuelnour]

Summary

Adding a new feature to enable to make cross platform Splash screen,

[Daniellled]

Based on the MAUI preview 4 release notes it looks like the splash screen, MauiSplashScreen, is only supported on specific platforms and is static. - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-maui-preview-4/#splash-screen

1. Will Splash Screens be supported on Windows platforms? (or is it and I just missed it)
2. It looks like the MauiSplashScreen project setting only allows for a static splash screen. Will a more dynamic/rich splash screen be added in the future? To perhaps display information to the user about the start up sequence of the application?

[GiannKarlo]

Hi , is there any update on this ? I still could not see my splashscreen on windows. :(

[vhugogarcia]

I think it will be pretty limited from what I saw. Maybe if they allow gradients as background that will make tons of differences. I wish I could contribute on this. Sadly, I dont have experience with that.

[MartyIX]

I would love to see splash screens on Windows too 👍

edit: Is there a workaround to show splash screen on Windows at the moment?

[GiannKarlo]

Any update on this ?

[GiannKarlo]

up

[ali-h2010]

My Workaround

I used a MediaElement to show the animated splash screen as a video. Set the initial page to this Content page

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<ContentPage
    x:Class="AppSample.View.CustomSplashScreen.AnimatedSplashScreen"
    xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
    xmlns:xct="clr-namespace:Xamarin.CommunityToolkit.UI.Views;assembly=Xamarin.CommunityToolkit">
    <ContentPage.Content>
        <StackLayout HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand" VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand">
            <xct:MediaElement ShowsPlaybackControls="False"
                              Source="ms-appx:///splash_screen_animated.mp4"
                              Aspect="AspectFill"
                              AutoPlay="True"
                              BackgroundColor="White"
                              />
        </StackLayout>
    </ContentPage.Content>
</ContentPage>

And on code behind, i am dismissing the splash screen and setting the main page after awaiting for the legth of the video

  protected async override void OnAppearing()
    {
        base.OnAppearing();
        await Task.Delay(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5));

        App.SetMainPage();
    }