Chris Stewart

If you want some kind of animation, you should look at a hybrid approach as outlined here: http://saulmm.github.io/avoding-android-cold-starts Basically, you follow the technique outlined in my post for the instant...

I believe the Youtube splash screen is showing two images. So, the "Google" text is really just an image. I don't think you can add text to a splash screen...

The icon enlarging you're talking about is the app icon zooming into the splash screen icon? I believe that this is as simple as them having a larger icon that...

The animation is handled by the Launcher. I believe it works like this (I could be wrong): if the app is not in memory, you get the zoom up animation....

Your splash screen isn't going to grab an image outside of the screen density of the device that you are on. If you want the icon to be bigger, you...

I haven't had a chance to try out solutions to this problem. There are a number of attributes that you can set on XML bitmap drawables that may help: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/drawable-resource.html#XmlBitmap...