[Android] (Android 12 only) When app is started from device, icon is used as splashscreen

[janseris]

Description

This is maybe caused by Android 12 overriding the splashscreen behavior. I read that in Android 12, there is new splashscreen API. It seems like for all apps, the icon is used as splashscreen by default.

This applies to both Debug and Release.
This means that for release apps (production), icon is displayed as splashscreen for users.

The issue:

• when the app is executed from the device app menu, icon with its background is displayed as splashscreen image
• when the app is executed from Visual Studio, the splashscreen image does not render at all ([Android] API 31 (Android 12) svg on splashscreen is not showing  #7289)

Steps to Reproduce

Run an app which has different splashscreen and icon image to observe the behavior.

<MauiIcon Include="Resources\appicon.svg" ForegroundFile="Resources\appiconfg.svg" Color="#512BD4" /> <!-- default -->
<MauiSplashScreen Include="Resources\bird.png" Color="Green" BaseSize="128,160"/> <!-- custom image and color -->

Started from phone:

Started from Visual Studio:

Android 11:

Version with bug

Release Candidate 3 (current)

Last version that worked well

Unknown/Other

Affected platforms

Android

Affected platform versions

Android 12

Did you find any workaround?

No response

Relevant log output

No response

[kristinx0211]

verified repro on android 12. repro project:
MauiApp3.zip

[jzhao8402]

I have the same problem on android 11 emulator and physical devices. It does not seem like only on android 12.

[kylewhittington]

I can confirm this behaviour on Android 12. No matter which splashscreen image I put in, it's still showing the ".NET" from the App Icon. Surely this is a big deal? Any workarounds? 12 is pretty ubiquitous.

[janseris]

@Eilon there is noone assigned to solve this issue and it has been confirmed again lately and it is already 3 months old.

[AlexeyStarkov]

The issue is still there on the latest available preview viersion

[supershopping]

After 3 months, still no plan to fix this issue? A splash screen is the first thing you see in an app.

[MagicAndre1981]

After 3 months, still no plan to fix this issue?

The issue is tracked now in new issue - Add support for Android 12+ Splash Screen APIs:

[mattleibow]

Thanks @MagicAndre1981! As you mention, the issue is tracked in #9794 and will link to other issues of interest relating to splash screens.

[mattleibow]

And just and FYI, I found a nice and simple workaround for now until I can fix this in MAUI: #9794