[Android] (Android 12 only) When app is started from device, icon is used as splashscreen

Description

This is maybe caused by Android 12 overriding the splashscreen behavior. I read that in Android 12, there is new splashscreen API. It seems like for all apps, the icon is used as splashscreen by default.

This applies to both Debug and Release. This means that for release apps (production), icon is displayed as splashscreen for users.

The issue:

• when the app is executed from the device app menu, icon with its background is displayed as splashscreen image
• when the app is executed from Visual Studio, the splashscreen image does not render at all (https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/7289)

Steps to Reproduce

Run an app which has different splashscreen and icon image to observe the behavior.

<MauiIcon Include="Resources\appicon.svg" ForegroundFile="Resources\appiconfg.svg" Color="#512BD4" /> <!-- default -->
<MauiSplashScreen Include="Resources\bird.png" Color="Green" BaseSize="128,160"/> <!-- custom image and color -->

Started from phone: Started from Visual Studio:

Android 11:

Version with bug

Release Candidate 3 (current)

Last version that worked well

Unknown/Other

Affected platforms

Android

Affected platform versions

Android 12

Did you find any workaround?

No response

Relevant log output

No response

[supershopping]

After 3 months, still no plan to fix this issue? A splash screen is the first thing you see in an app.

[mattleibow]

And just and FYI, I found a nice and simple workaround for now until I can fix this in MAUI: https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/9794