SplashScreen

The SplashScreen module tells Expo to keep the splash screen visible until you choose to hide it. This is useful to do some work behind the scenes before displaying your app and to create transitions for your splash screen, so you can have it fade out or slide away, for example.

This is useful to let you create an impression of a pure React component splash screen. You can combine it with AppLoading. Read more about creating a splash screen.

Platform Compatibility

Android Device	Android Emulator	iOS Device	iOS Simulator	Web
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Installation

This API is pre-installed in managed apps. It is not available for bare React Native apps.

API

import { SplashScreen } from 'expo';

`SplashScreen.preventAutoHide()`

Makes the native splash screen (configured in app.json) stay visible until hide is called.

`SplashScreen.hide()`

Hides the native splash screen.

Example with AppLoading

import React from 'react';
import { Image, Text, View } from 'react-native';
import { AppLoading, SplashScreen } from 'expo';
import { Asset } from 'expo-asset';

export default class App extends React.Component {
  state = {
    isSplashReady: false,
    isAppReady: false,
  };

  render() {
    if (!this.state.isSplashReady) {
      return (
        <AppLoading
          startAsync={this._cacheSplashResourcesAsync}
          onFinish={() => this.setState({ isSplashReady: true })}
          onError={console.warn}
          autoHideSplash={false}
        />
      );
    }

    if (!this.state.isAppReady) {
      return (
        <View style={{ flex: 1 }}>
          <Image
            source={require('./assets/images/splash.gif')}
            onLoad={this._cacheResourcesAsync}
          />
        </View>
      );
    }

    return (
      <View style={{ flex: 1 }}>
        <Image source={require('./assets/images/expo-icon.png')} />
        <Image source={require('./assets/images/slack-icon.png')} />
      </View>
    );
  }

  _cacheSplashResourcesAsync = async () => {
    const gif = require('./assets/images/splash.gif');
    return Asset.fromModule(gif).downloadAsync();
  };

  _cacheResourcesAsync = async () => {
    SplashScreen.hide();
    const images = [
      require('./assets/images/expo-icon.png'),
      require('./assets/images/slack-icon.png'),
    ];

    const cacheImages = images.map(image => {
      return Asset.fromModule(image).downloadAsync();
    });

    await Promise.all(cacheImages);
    this.setState({ isAppReady: true });
  };
}

Example without AppLoading

import React from 'react';
import { Image, Text, View } from 'react-native';
import { SplashScreen } from 'expo';
import { Asset } from 'expo-asset';

export default class App extends React.Component {
  state = {
    isReady: false,
  };

  componentDidMount() {
    SplashScreen.preventAutoHide();
  }

  render() {
    if (!this.state.isReady) {
      return (
        <View style={{ flex: 1 }}>
          <Image
            source={require('./assets/images/splash.gif')}
            onLoad={this._cacheResourcesAsync}
          />
        </View>
      );
    }

    return (
      <View style={{ flex: 1 }}>
        <Image source={require('./assets/images/expo-icon.png')} />
        <Image source={require('./assets/images/slack-icon.png')} />
      </View>
    );
  }

  _cacheSplashResourcesAsync = async () => {
    const gif = require('./assets/images/splash.gif');
    return Asset.fromModule(gif).downloadAsync();
  };

  _cacheResourcesAsync = async () => {
    SplashScreen.hide();
    const images = [
      require('./assets/images/expo-icon.png'),
      require('./assets/images/slack-icon.png'),
    ];

    const cacheImages = images.map(image => {
      return Asset.fromModule(image).downloadAsync();
    });

    await Promise.all(cacheImages);
    this.setState({ isReady: true });
  };
}

Example without any flickering between SplashScreen and its later continuation

import React from 'react';
import { Image, Text, View } from 'react-native';
import { AppLoading, SplashScreen } from 'expo';
import { Asset } from 'expo-asset';

export default class App extends React.Component {
  state = { areResourcesReady: false };

  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    SplashScreen.preventAutoHide(); // Instruct SplashScreen not to hide yet
  }

  componentDidMount() {
    this.cacheResourcesAsync() // ask for resources
      .then(() => this.setState({ areResourcesReady: true })) // mark resources as loaded
      .catch(error => console.error(`Unexpected error thrown when loading:
${error.stack}`));
  }

  render() {
    if (!this.state.areResourcesReady) {
      return null;
    }

    return (
      <View style={{ flex: 1 }}>
        <Image
          style={{ flex: 1, resizeMode: 'contain', width: undefined, height: undefined }}
          source={require('./assets/splash.png')}
          onLoadEnd={() => {
            // wait for image's content to fully load [`Image#onLoadEnd`] (https://reactnative.dev/docs/image#onloadend)
            console.log('Image#onLoadEnd: hiding SplashScreen');
            SplashScreen.hide(); // Image is fully presented, instruct SplashScreen to hide
          }}
          fadeDuration={0} // we need to adjust Android devices (https://reactnative.dev/docs/image#fadeduration) fadeDuration prop to `0` as it's default value is `300`
        />
      </View>
    );
  }

  async cacheResourcesAsync() {
    const images = [require('./assets/splash.png')];
    const cacheImages = images.map(image => Asset.fromModule(image).downloadAsync());
    return Promise.all(cacheImages);
  }
}