Windows Phone Splash Screen

• Why to use splash screen?

Typically, should use a splash-in your apps only if your apps is unusually slow to load if you want to add Additi Onal branding to the app. You can use splash screens to show company logo, promote apps, load data and etc.

• How to create a splash screen?

See how to create a splash-in Silverlight and XNA project:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/ff769511 (v=vs.105). aspx

• How to update splash screen?

Just Replace "splashscreenimage.jpg".

• How to remove splash screen?

In the Windows Phone 7.1 project, just exclude "splashscreenimage.jpg" from Project. From Windows Phone 8.0 project, the default project template doesn ' t contain splash screen image. So if you want to use Splash screens in Windows phone 8.0 project, just include splashscreenimage.jpg into the project.

• How do I use a animated splash screen?

1. Method 1:use a popup.
   Http://developer.nokia.com/community/wiki/Custom_splash_screen_with_progress_bar_for_Windows_Phone_applications
2. Method 2:use A new page to show splash screen.
   Http://developer.nokia.com/community/wiki/Custom_splash_screen_page_for_Windows_Phone_applications

You also can add no animation in both of above methods.

Windows Phone Splash Screen