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Splash screen animation

I made a splash activity before my app's main activity. It has a movieview and an animated imageview. I have two problems with the imageview:
Before the fade-in animation starts the image is visible.
During the animation a see the frames. ( And it is not because of the emulator, I also tested it on a Sony Xperia SP.)
My java:
package com.koostamas.tbbt;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.animation.Animation;
import android.view.animation.AnimationUtils;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.VideoView;
public class SplashActivity extends Activity {
private ImageView circle;
private Animation anim;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_splash);
VideoView loading = (VideoView)findViewById(R.id.videoView_loading);
circle = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.imageView_circle);
loading.setVideoPath("android.resource://com.koostamas.tbbt/raw/splash_loading");
loading.setZOrderOnTop(true);
loading.start();
anim = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, R.anim.fade_in);
}
#Override
public void onWindowFocusChanged (boolean hasFocus) {
super.onWindowFocusChanged(hasFocus);
if (hasFocus)
circle.startAnimation(anim);
}
Thread thread = new Thread(){
#Override
public void run() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
try {
sleep(5000);
startActivity(new Intent(getApplicationContext(), MainActivity.class));
finish();
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
};
{
thread.start();
}
}
Please help me solve these problems. Thanks in advance.

Instead of using the onWindowFocusChanged register on the videoView's setOnCompletionListener. there you can start your animation.
To call the next activity use :
new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {
public void run()
{ startActivity(new Intent(getApplicationContext(), MainActivity.class));
finish(); }
} , animationTime);

Main Activity not opening

My app seems to start up properly, with the splash screen and stuff. But when it sleeps for 6 secs and when it supposed to get into the main activity the app crashes any help please?
Here is me code (android.intent.action1.MAINACTIVIVTY, the "action" was purposely changed to "action1")
package com.hellhogone.multitools;
import com.hellhogone.multitools.R;
import android.media.MediaPlayer;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.view.Window;
import android.view.WindowManager;
public class Splash extends Activity{
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);
setContentView(R.layout.splash);
MediaPlayer yo = MediaPlayer.create(Splash.this, R.raw.smusic);
yo.start();
Thread timer = new Thread(){
public void run(){
try{
sleep(6000);
}catch(InterruptedException e){
e.printStackTrace();
}finally{
Intent h1 = new Intent("android.intent.action1.MAINACTIVITY");
startActivity(h1);
}
}
};
timer.start();
}
#Override
protected void onPause() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
super.onPause();
finish();
}
}

You cannot start an activity from another thread than the UI thread. To avoid this problem you can use runOnUiThread() :
}finally{
runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
Intent h1 = new Intent("android.intent.action1.MAINACTIVITY");
startActivity(h1);
}
});
}

Android - Change the Image View Source at run time after few seconds

The following code is for a splash screen in my app.What I need to be done is when the activity loads the image should be displayed as default and then after few seconds the image should be changed to another in the same activity. I have another image like the first one with different color. I wanted to change the screen for that image after few seconds.
I have done it like this in my code.
package com.ruchira.busguru;
import android.media.MediaPlayer;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.RelativeLayout;
public class SplashScreen extends Activity {
ImageView imgBus;
MediaPlayer introSound, bellSound;
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.splash_screen);
imgBus = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.imgBus);
imgBus.setImageResource(R.drawable.blackbus);
introSound = MediaPlayer.create(SplashScreen.this, R.raw.enginestart);
introSound.start();
Thread timer = new Thread(){
public void run(){
try{
sleep(3000);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}finally{
imgBus.setImageResource(R.drawable.bluekbus);
}
}
};
timer.start();
}
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.splash_screen, menu);
return true;
}
#Override
protected void onPause() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
super.onPause();
introSound.stop();
finish();
}
#Override
protected void onStop() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
super.onStop();
introSound.stop();
finish();
}
}
but the problem is the program stops by executing in the thread saying...
"android.view.ViewRoot$CalledFromWrongThreadException: Only the original thread that created a view hierarchy can touch its views."
How I can achieve this target ? Does anybody please help me to sort out this problem. I am new to android development..
Thanks.

You should use the ImageView's Handler and a Runnable. Handler's are schedulers specific to Android and they can run on the UI thread. Try this:
ImageView imgBus;
MediaPlayer introSound, bellSound;
Runnable swapImage = new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
imgBus.setImageResource(R.drawable.bluekbus);
}
};
And inside onCreate() call:
imgBus = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.imgBus);
imgBus.setImageResource(R.drawable.blackbus);
imgBus.postDelayed(swapImage, 3000); // Add me!
Understand that splash screens are frowned upon because you should focus on starting the app as soon as possible (while loading the slower element in the background). However sometimes a slight delay is unavoidable.

Write this inside finally
runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
SplashScreen.class.img.setImageResource(R.drawable.bluekbus);
}
});
You should always update your UI from the UI Thread itself...

Try the following,
We cannot access and update the UI from worker threads, only we can access the UI from UIThread. If we need it to update with background thread then we can use Handler to do this like in the following code.
this.imgBus = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.splashImageView);
imgBus.setImageResource(R.drawable.your_first_image);
this.handler = new Handler();
introSound = MediaPlayer.create(SplashTestForSO.this, R.raw.enginestart);
introSound.start();
Thread timer = new Thread(){
public void run(){
try{
sleep(2000);
YourActivity.this.handler.post(runnable);
sleep(1000);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}finally{
}
}
};
timer.start();
this.runnable = new Runnable() {
public void run() {
//call the activity method that updates the UI
YourActivity.this.imgBus.setImageResource(R.drawable.your_scond_image_view);
}
};

Mp3 not playing in Android

I create a simple splash screen which has a sound(mp3)
package in.isuru.Hello;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.media.MediaPlayer;
import android.os.Bundle;
public class Splash extends Activity {
MediaPlayer player;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
//splash is a xml layout
setContentView(R.layout.splash);
//haha is a mp3 file.
player = MediaPlayer.create(Splash.this, R.raw.haha);
player.start();
//Timer to pause 5 seconds before go to next intent
Thread timer = new Thread(){
public void run(){
try{
//player starts playing mp3 file
sleep(5000);
}catch(InterruptedException e){
e.printStackTrace();
}finally{
Intent openStartingPoint = new Intent("in.isuru.HELLO");
startActivity(openStartingPoint);
}
}
};
timer.start();
}
#Override
protected void onPause() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
super.onPause();
player.release();
finish();
}
}
I tried android MediaPlayer not playing mp3 file
too but it didn't work. I consulted Android Documentation too. but nothing seems to work either.

put player.prepare(); before player.start();
See if that works

cant call function from inside thread or asyntask

I am using a thread and a handler in android. The app works fine as long as i dont any function from outside the activity. But if i call some funcyion from outside the activity from inside a thread, it gives NullPointerException.
package com.prog;
import com.API.TextBoxCheck;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.ProgressDialog;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.TextView;
public class ProgressBarExample extends Activity {
private Handler handler = new Handler();
int i;
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
Button btn=(Button)findViewById(R.id.button1);
btn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener(){
TextView tv=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.textView1);
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
Thread thread = new Thread(null, doBackgroundThreadProcessing,
"Background");
thread.start();
}});
Button stopBtn=(Button)findViewById(R.id.button2);
stopBtn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener(){
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
finish();
}});
}
private Runnable doBackgroundThreadProcessing = new Runnable() {
public void run() {
try {
backgroundThreadProcessing();
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
};
private void backgroundThreadProcessing() throws InterruptedException {
TextView tv=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.textView1);
i=0;
while(i<100)
{
handler.post(doUpdateGUI);
Thread.sleep(50);
i++;
}
EditText et=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText1);
TextBoxCheck tbc = new com.API.TextBoxCheck();
String reply=tbc.TextBoxChecker(et.getText().toString(),10);
Log.d("thread", reply);
}
private Runnable doUpdateGUI = new Runnable() {
public void run() {
updateGUI();
}
private void updateGUI() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
TextView tv=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.textView1);
tv.setText(i+"%");
}
};
}
I have left out the code of textBoxCheck becoz i think it may be unnecesarry here.
Please help me on this.
PS. : I also tried using AsyncTask but the same problem occurs.

You are not on UI thread. You must be on UI thread to operate on any UI items. Create a handler on the UI thread and call your backgroundThreadProcessing(); from the handler and not from a non-UI thread.