I have written a windows phone application. When the application starts up it shows the splash screen which is cool and i can change the image. But is there a way to add a loading animation like those dots moving across the screen.
It would be nice if i can add one of those animation in the splash screen. Can it be done. if yes please add in your answers.
As of right now there is no way to replace the loading image that shows up with an animation. Although there are workarounds:
Remove the image all together. Might want to be careful though because Microsoft requires that the application show some kind of feedback to the user within a few seconds of launching the app. Use this only if your app loads really fast.
Display a snap shot of the loading screen as an image so when the app does load you can show an animation with the same background image and it appears that its the same loading screen.
In your case I would recommend using a popup control with a loading animation inside (Option 2). To learn how to create a popup go here. Or if you want a well documented popup I know telerik has there own version as well.
Next place the loading message in a textblock or put your own image and animation inside of the popup. Obviously the easiest animation would be to use the Performance Progress Bar in the silverlight toolkit.
Now what you'll want to do is set the popup opened by default. Whenever your processing is done all you have to do is set the popup visibility to hidden in your C# code.
Some examples of how this is implemented can be found here:
Creating a Splash Screen
Creating an Animated Splash Screen
All About Splash Screens
And here's an example for an XNA game:
Creating a Splash Screen for your XNA game
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I have Xamarin Application which is on Xamarin Forms based. I am facing issue in case of Windows Splash screen. I can see splash screen but image looks very smaller. I don't know where to set this image.
Currently I have set at following place with specific size:
Package.appxmenifest
The default UWP splash screen will always appear unless you make it optional, in which case it will appear only when the OS takes too long to initialize the app. I have described how to make splash screen optional on my blog.
The overall procedure is to open Package.appxmanifest in text editor, add the following namespace:
xmlns:uap5="http://schemas.microsoft.com/appx/manifest/uap/windows10/5
And then add optional attribute to the SplashScreen element:
<uap:SplashScreen ... uap5:Optional="true" />
In this manner, if the app launches fast enough, the splash screen may not display to the user and you can provide your own custom splash screen as a full-fledged Xamarin.Forms page for example. However, note that this does not mean you should not care about how the default UWP splash screen looks, because it is quite likely it will display anyway while the runtime is initializing, especially on low-end hardware, in which case you still should provide a user friendly graphic instead of the default image for example.
Looking to do two things where the normal 'default.png' image loads in an iOS app.
For example, like how the 'cut the rope' app starts up.
1) want to display two logo screens on starting (well one logo screen and one loading screen)
2) want to have the second screen animate a 'loading' bar that shows the app loading
Having a lot of difficulty in finding any good examples or tutorials on either!
Anyone got any links or helpful ideas on either of these items?
Thanks!
I just wondering how to make panorama start-up animation like music+video or picture app. Notice the sliding 3d animation when we open music+video/picture/marketplace app.
When I create panorama project using VS 2010 Express, the animation is just from right to left.
How do i make that animation?
If I understand you correctly - take a look to Wp7 silverlight toolkit - page transitions
The animations are there, but if you have too many things running on the UI thread, the animation will be hard to see since loading will be choppy. To test this, just make a new page with a default panorama inside it and observe the animation while its empty. Zune app will always be faster, its run on native code from my understanding.
I tried to find an example for content loading animation (to learn how to implement one in my app). But I couldn't find one.
What I want is: There are 4 listboxes in my mainpage and I want to show a loading animation until the listboxes have completed loading their data.
For example,IMDB application has a loading animation like I want. (You can watch it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV9BoyGm7Fo)
Any ideas on how to create this?
Thanks
Please refer to these links, as they seem to provide the exact solution to coding this standard loading animation:
Creating a Splash Screen with a progress bar for WP7 applications
High Performance ProgressBar for Windows Phone 7
How can i display a splash screen for my XNA game for WP7.Can it be done by simply placing SplashScreenImage.jpg in the project(this didn't worked).Or there is some other method.
In your initial content load, load the splash screen image through the content pipeline. Then in your first render method call, render it to the screen. Once you've done that, you are free to load all of your other content.
This post has some great info about load times, including a link to a forum thread with some great suggestions on implementation: http://geekswithblogs.net/mikebmcl/archive/2010/08/20/xna-and-wp7-load-times.aspx