How to make a basic splash screen

The following code will show you how to create a basic splashscreen for your Android application that will stay for 5 seconds. If we don't want to wait we can tap the screen to go directly to the next Activity. Source project is on the bottom of the tutorial.
Lets go through the code to see how simple it is to make a very basic splash screen for your application.
The splashscreen will be the startup Activity for our application and on application launch a Thread will start that will listen for touch events.

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01	public class SplashScreen extends Activity {

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03	//how long until we go to the next activity

04	protected int _splashTime = 5000;

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06	private Thread splashTread;

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08	/** Called when the activity is first created. */

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@Override

10	public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

11	super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

12	setContentView(R.layout.splash);

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14	final SplashScreen sPlashScreen = this;

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16	// thread for displaying the SplashScreen

17	splashTread = new Thread() {

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@Override

19	public void run() {

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try {

21	synchronized(this){

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23	//wait 5 sec

24	wait(_splashTime);

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}

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27	} catch(InterruptedException e) {}

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finally {

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finish();

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31	//start a new activity

32	Intent i = new Intent();

33	i.setClass(sPlashScreen, Main.class);

34	startActivity(i);

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stop();

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}

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}

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};

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41	splashTread.start();

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}

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44	//Function that will handle the touch

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@Override

46	public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {

47	if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {

48	synchronized(splashTread){

49	splashTread.notifyAll();

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}

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}

52	return true;

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}

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}