In the top-level `config.xml` file (not the one in `platforms`), add configuration elements like those specified here.
Please notice that the value of the "src" attribute is relative to the project directory and not to the www directory. You can name the source image whatever you like. The internal name in the app is determined by Cordova.
```xml
<platformname="android">
<!-- you can use any density that exists in the Android project -->
-__AutoHideSplashScreen__ (boolean, default to `true`). Indicates whether to hide splash screen automatically or not. Splash screen hidden after amount of time specified in the `SplashScreenDelay` preference.
"SplashMaintainAspectRatio" preference is optional. If set to true, splash screen drawable is not stretched to fit screen, but instead simply "covers" the screen, like CSS "background-size:cover". This is very useful when splash screen images cannot be distorted in any way, for example when they contain scenery or text. This setting works best with images that have large margins (safe areas) that can be safely cropped on screens with different aspect ratios.
The plugin reloads splash drawable whenever orientation changes, so you can specify different drawables for portrait and landscape orientations.
"SplashShowOnlyFirstTime" preference is also optional and defaults to `true`. When set to `true` splash screen will only appear on application launch. However, if you plan to use `navigator.app.exitApp()` to close application and force splash screen appear on next launch, you should set this property to `false` (this also applies to closing the App with Back button).
### Browser Quirks
You can use the following preferences in your `config.xml`:
__Note__: `SplashScreen` value should be absolute in order to work in a sub-page. The `SplashScreen` value is used only for the browser platform. The value will be ignored for other platforms.
Note also that this value used to be seconds, and not milliseconds, so values less than 30 will still be treated as seconds. ( Consider this a deprecated patch that will disapear in some future version. )
_Note_: `FadeSplashScreenDuration` is included into `SplashScreenDelay`, for example if you have `<preference name="SplashScreenDelay" value="3000" />` and `<preference name="FadeSplashScreenDuration" value="1000"/>` defined in `config.xml`:
- 00:00 - splashscreen is shown
- 00:02 - fading has started
- 00:03 - splashscreen is hidden
Turning the fading off via `<preference name="FadeSplashScreen" value="false"/>` technically means fading duration to be `0` so that in this example the overall splash delay will still be 3 seconds.
_Note_: This only applies to the app startup - you need to take the fading timeout into account when manually showing/hiding the splashscreen in the code:
```javascript
navigator.splashscreen.show();
window.setTimeout(function () {
navigator.splashscreen.hide();
}, splashDuration - fadeDuration);
```
-`ShowSplashScreenSpinner` (boolean, defaults to `true`): Set to `false`
