Adding a splash screen to my project - iphone

Question

I have created a project which consist of a tabbarcontroller and a navigationcontroller.
The first view or the first tab is a tableview controller. Now i need to add a splashscreen to my application, so when the app loads it will show a welcome screen and then land on the tableviewcontroller.
My workings so far;
This is added in my viewDidLoad method.
myImageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"splash.jpg"]];
myImageView.frame = [[self view] frame];
[self.view addSubview:myImageView];
[self.view bringSubviewToFront:self.myImageView];
The problem is that the splash screen or the UIImageView loads inside the tabbarController/NavigationController, and it does not take the full width and length of the screen. What should i do to fix this programatically ?

Answer 1

In application bundle you need to copy the splash screen images with the name "Default.png" and "Default#2x.png" for Retina. The app will load this automatically, you don't need to do more work.
Here you have a link for this: http://iosdevelopertips.com/cocoa/defaultpng-the-secret-of-the-load-screen.html

Answer 2

Add the images that you want to use to the resources of your project and name them Default.png and Default#2x.png (if you are providing it for a retina screen). Be sure no name them exactly. If you get the capitalisation wrong, it will work in the Simulator (which is not case-sensitive), but not on the device (which is case-sensitive).
Be aware that a "splash screen" is discouraged by the Apple Human Interface Guidelines:

Answer 3

Have you given the Launch Images a look in your target settings?

Answer 4

You would probably want to add the splash screen in the app delegate's didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method. Then start an animation of fade out (or whatever animation you need). Finally removing the splash screen view when the animation is complete.

Answer 5

You have to add the UIImageView to the root's view:
UIView *rootView = [[[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] viewController] view];
[myImageView setFrame:rootView.bounds];
[rootView addSubview:myImageView];

Answer 6

you can use the uiimage view to add an array of images to play an animation, try the following
code in
-(void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
animationSplashImageView.animationImages = imageArray;
animationSplashImageView.animationDuration = 5;
animationSplashImageView.animationRepeatCount = 1;
[animationSplashImageView startAnimating];
}
IBOutlet UIImageView* animationSplashImageView;
was defined in the main view of your app.
also you could test your splash using tool Splashx Free, which is on Apple App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/cn/app/splashx-free/id500137095?mt=8