Screen persistance across Activities?

[GuyBooth]

My app opens in the Main activity with a splash screen. After an initial check to determine the availablitiy of data, it starts a different activity, and I want the same splash screen to continue while other layouts are prepared.

At the moment, I have set it to load the same splash screen from the second activity, but the switch from one activity to the next is still visible - there's a gap betweeen the Main Activity stopping and the second activity loading its splash screen, even thought the splash screens are identical.

Is there a way around this? Is there any way to make the opening spalsh screen persist into the second activity?

 

[Erel]

Seems to me that your only option it to use the same activity for both "tasks" (to avoid starting another activity).