Windows Phone Splash Screen

Why to use splash screen?

Typically, you should use a splash screen in your app only if your app is unusually slow to load if you want to add additional branding to the app. You can use splash screen to show company logo, promote apps, load data and etc.

How to create a splash screen?

See how to create a splash screen in silverlight and XNA project:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/ff769511(v=vs.105).aspx
How to update splash screen?

Just replace “SplashScreenImage.jpg”.

How remove splash screen?

In Windows Phone 7.1 project, just exclude “SplashScreenImage.jpg” from project. From Windows Phone 8.0 project, the default project template doesn’t contain splash screen image. So if you want to use Splash Screen in Windows phone 8.0 project, just include SplashScreenImage.jpg into the project.

How to use an animated splash screen?

Method 1: Use a popup.
http://developer.nokia.com/community/wiki/Custom_splash_screen_with_progress_bar_for_Windows_Phone_applications

Method 2: Use a new page to show splash screen.
http://developer.nokia.com/community/wiki/Custom_splash_screen_page_for_Windows_Phone_applications

You also can add any animation in both of above methods.