NET MAUI Splash Screen Not Displaying logo.png on Android 14 and 15

Question

I am developing a .NET MAUI application and facing an issue with the splash screen when installing the app on physical devices running Android 14 and 15. The splash screen only displays the purple background, but the logo.png image (with a white background) is not visible.

This issue occurs only after creating the APK and installing it on a physical device. The splash screen works as expected during debugging on both emulators and physical devices.

Expected Behavior: The splash screen should display logo.png with a white background.

Actual Behavior: The splash screen displays only the purple background without the logo.png image.

Steps I Have Already Tried:

1. Deleted the bin and obj folders, then cleaned and rebuilt the project.

Additional Information:

• The app targets devices running Android 14 and 15.
• The logo.png file is located in Resources/Splash/ with Build Action set to MauiSplashScreen.
• The issue persists across multiple devices but does not occur in debug mode.
• GitHub Repo :- https://github.com/IX-OmkarP/SplashScreenIssue

Answer 1

Hello,

===========Update==========

but I am unable to set a white background. How can I set a white background?

Please open the styles.xml in the Platforms/Android/Resouces/values and add this <item name="android:windowSplashScreenBackground">@android:color/white</item> line in the <style name="CustomSplashTheme" parent="Maui.SplashTheme">

Firstly, before you install the new generated APK, please uninstall it manually.

Then, We can try to set splash logo by native android's way. Please create a folder called Drawable in the /Platform/Android/Resouces path, then copy the logo.png to the /Platform/Android/Resouces/Drawable folder, make sure logo.pngs build cation is AndroidResource.

After that, open the styles.xml in the Platforms/Android/Resouces/values, set the logo by <item name="android:windowSplashScreenAnimatedIcon">@drawable/splashlog</item> like following code.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<resources>
<style name="CustomSplashTheme" parent="Maui.SplashTheme">
 
    
<!--To turn off the highlight color-->
<item name="android:colorControlHighlight">@android:color/transparent</item>
<!--To turn off the application title bar-->
<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
<!--To enable working with SplashScreen-->
<item name="android:windowBackground">@drawable/maui_splash</item>
 
 
     <!-- Copy your splash icon to the /Platform/Android/Resouces/Drawable folder, and set the buildaction to AndroidResource-->

<item name="android:windowSplashScreenAnimatedIcon">@drawable/logo</item>
 
    </style>
</resources>

In the end, please set your build action to the Release, release your application, re-publish your application and generated your APK. By the way, you can refer to this Publish an Android app for ad-hoc distribution document.

Best Regards,

Leon Lu

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Answer 2

Thank you for your replies. Sorry for replying late. it is working now. If required, I will again reach out to you.