Every application open on Android 12 is accompanied by a launch animation to make “startup a more consistent and delightful experience,” and the experience can be further enhanced by an animated icon ...

Starting with Android 12 and its third developer preview, Google will now show an auto-generated splash screen on all apps.

Drawing inspiration from its smart TV app, YouTube for Android introduced a splash screen animation back in September 2023. One year later, the YouTube Music app is now following suit.

For the longest time, YouTube has had a somewhat static splash screen that simply shows its logo when you first launch the app. But the company has been working on a new loading animation and startup ...

In exploring the latest build of Android 12 before full public launch, the feature we found to have the most potential to impact the everyday average user's future experience was Splash Screens ...