Hi James,

in order to change the initial black screen you need to create a child theme from the one you just mentioned, here’s a deeplink to the specific paragraph: http://sresc.io/tLt

In order to achieve this you’ll need to be able to create also the necessary style.xml file where your new background color/image will be fetched and then set the new theme in you AndroidManifest.xml ,

since I never used Adobe’s services to produce phonegap builds I don’t know if there are specific limitations for doing any of the required steps…

keep us posted

I’m using phonegap online build… and I want to remove the initial black screen before splash screen and i.e title (app name)… I’ve tried all the examples with Theme.NoTitleBar with no luck. I uploaded your latest code base and the tile still shows with a black background, before the splash screen.

I’m using PhoneGap Android cli-6.5.0 6.1.2… please help this is frustrating the hell out of me.

All I want is just a white or black screen with no text before the splash screen, like your animation.

Please help

If by any chance you’ve been using PhonegapBuild you could check this out http://community.phonegap.com/nitobi/topics/simple-splash-screen-test-failing?rfm=1

Solved my problem, I had defined the splashscreen.xml file. Thank excellent tutorial.

Glad it helped 🙂
strange the method wouldn’t work, I’m still using cordova 3.4.0 so dunno if it’s a regression bug introduced with new releases,
not having more info I would check if the code chunk were navigator.splashscreen.hide() is present is reached at all (maybe some logic flow fail?),
I’d put a console.log("test") right after it,
Also I’d make the timeout even longer to try issuing the command via console in real time after application started and see if it works,
if none of above tests gives positive result then it’s time to check their bugzilla and file an issue

Thanks