How do you disable the Windows Phone 7 splash screen?

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Is there any way to disable the WP7 splash screen and just show a blank screen?

My splash screen only stays on for less than half a second, leaving the user with a rather jarring sensation. I'd rather they not see any splash screen at all.

I would have simply used a plain black image as my splash screen, but then that would result in an ugly experience for people using a light theme (since my app's background is white on light themes and black on dark themes)

Thanks!

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This question would fit better on superuser.com – user350814
You could somehow integrate your splashscreen with your initial page - perhaps providing some animation when your app is first shown to make the experience less jarring. Alternatively, I believe that most users (by a long way) use the dark theme - so you could design around that? – Stuart
nebukadnezzar - I disagree - this is a programming question - its about an app's splashscreen in WP7, not about the WP7 phone's splashscreen – Stuart
@nebukadnezzar - It's an WP7 application development question, why would it fit better on superuser.com? – Richard Szalay
@Richard Szalay: My fault, I misunderstood the question – user350814

4 Answers

10
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Simply remove the file SplashScreenImage.jpg.

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Like everyone says, you could delete it. But before that, just rename it - right-click on SplashScreenImage.jpg in the Solution Explorer, click rename and just name it something like: SplashScreenImage2.jpg - gives VS a chance to catch up with your intent depending on your machine. Then delete that file.

You can and should delete the splash screen as per the guidance in the Windows Phone 7 Application Certification Guide in section 5.2.1.a:

Microsoft recommends that the application provides a splash screen image only when it takes longer than 1 second to load the first screen.

However, one thing that I've discovered is that while many apps can fire up really fast the first time they are launched, they made load slower after that if they have data that has been tombstoned. Just FYI

2
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Right click on the image file, select "Exclude from project". Rebuild.

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Just try to delete the SplashScreenImage.jpgas madd0 said :)
If you want your SplashScreen to last longer you can add a start page like this:
Customer Splash Screen
Modify the Timespan to suit your the time you want:

_splashTimer.Interval = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 2);