douglaszaltron / cordova-plugin-window-background

🎨 Simple Cordova plugin to set Android window background on start-up

🎨 cordova-plugin-window-background

This is a simple plugin for Android which will set the window background color for you app's MainActivity to a color of your choice. This allows you to avoid the standard dark grey background which will flash for a second before your splash screen appears. Set the color to the same background as your splash screen for a smoother start-up effect.

Installation

You'll need to set your desired window background color while installing the plugin by supplying the WINDOW_BACKGROUND_COLOR variable. Set it to whatever you want, preferably the same color as your splash screen.

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-window-background --variable WINDOW_BACKGROUND_COLOR=#ffffff --save

Or install directly from this repo:

cordova plugin add https://github.com/douglaszaltron/cordova-plugin-window-background.git --variable WINDOW_BACKGROUND_COLOR=#ffffff --save

Supported Platforms

• Android (cordova-android 6.0.0+)

Configuration

A custom WINDOW_BACKGROUND_COLOR variable will be added to your app's config.xml after installation with the value you selected (provided you included the --save flag).

cordova-plugin-window-background's Issues

Updated Plugin [Link in the details]

This plugin crashes the apps. So I've made the necessary changes and created a Repo here:

https://github.com/phiasco12/window-color

Any issues, leave me a comment there.

Lets keep this plugin alive and going.

Doesn't work on Phonegap Build

It doesn't work on Phonegap Build cli-7.1.0 (Android Cordova 6.3.0). After the following additions to config.xml the 1 second gray screen (before splashscreen) is still there.

<plugin name="cordova-plugin-window-background" spec="*">
	<variable name="WINDOW_BACKGROUND_COLOR" value="#0078d7" />
</plugin>

Also I tried to added the following, but with no effect:

<preference name="WINDOW_BACKGROUND_COLOR" value="#0078d7" />