Whether you have a static splash screen (nothing moving on it) or an animated one, you'll need multiple screens in your app. So, we first convert SpaceBall to more than one screen.
The best way to do this is to put everything we have now into a vertical arrangement (make it Fill Parent/Fill Parent). Rename the vertical arrange to Main (or Home or whatever you like for your first page name). Pull everything we now have into it so that it now looks like the following:
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It's just easier—based on my experience—to use vertical arrangements for virtual "screens" or "pages." (These are not physical discrete screens like AI will get sooner or later, but for now they do the job). We can then primarily use horizontal arrangements for formatting on each "screen". Again, merely something I've found simplifies designing apps.
We navigate between screens by making one visible and the other not visible.
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Now, let's design our splash screen.
First, collapse Main in...