Splash screen prism xamarin.forms - xamarin.forms

Question

I would like to create a splash screen in my xamarin.forms application which is using the prism.autofac.forms nuget package. Basically I want to create the same splash screen for each platform. Currently my Android application looks like this
[Activity(Label = "MyApp", Theme = "#style/MyTheme", MainLauncher = true, ConfigurationChanges = ConfigChanges.ScreenSize | ConfigChanges.Orientation)]
public class MainActivity : FormsAppCompatActivity
{
protected override void OnCreate(Bundle bundle)
{
ToolbarResource = Resource.Layout.Toolbar;
TabLayoutResource = Resource.Layout.Tabbar;
base.OnCreate(bundle);
Forms.Init(this, bundle);
LoadApplication(new Application(new DroidInitializer()));
}
}
and the application looks like this:
[XamlCompilation(XamlCompilationOptions.Compile)]
public partial class Application : PrismApplication
{
public Application(IPlatformInitializer initializer) : base(initializer)
{
NavigationService.NavigateHomeAsync();
}
protected override void RegisterTypes(IContainerRegistry containerRegistry)
{
containerRegistry.RegisterForNavigation<NavigationPage>("Navigation");
containerRegistry.RegisterForNavigation<MainPage>("Index");
containerRegistry.RegisterForNavigation<HomePage>();
}
protected override void OnInitialized()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
}
Where should I implement and show the splash screen? I want to NavigateHome when all registering are finished.

Answer 1

Splash screens should be implemented in the platform projects.
For iOS the recommended solution is to use a storyboard for it, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/ios/app-fundamentals/images-icons/launch-screens?tabs=vsmac
For Android I use to create a theme for the splash screen, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/android/user-interface/splash-screen
You can make them look the same, but you have to do it on each platform.