Unable to Disable Android Splash Screen as Per Documentation

[IX-OmkarP]

Description

I am following the official documentation on how to disable the splash screen for a .NET MAUI application, as outlined here:

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/user-interface/images/splashscreen?view=net-maui-8.0&tabs=android
  

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/troubleshooting?view=net-maui-8.0#disable-splash-screen-packaging.

However, I am unable to disable the splash screen

Expected Behavior:
The splash screen should be disabled according to the guide.

Actual Behavior:
The splash screen continues to appear even after applying the suggested changes.

Steps to Reproduce

• Follow the steps mentioned in the documentation to disable the splash screen.
• Build and run the application.
• The splash screen still appears.

Link to public reproduction project repository

Sample Code

Version with bug

Unknown/Other

Is this a regression from previous behavior?

Not sure, did not test other versions

Last version that worked well

Unknown/Other

Affected platforms

Android, I was not able test on other platforms

Affected platform versions

No response

Did you find any workaround?

Yes but when I press the app icon to start my app it takes like 2-3s before the app starts.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<resources>
<style name="MainTheme" parent="Maui.SplashTheme">
    <item name="android:windowIsTranslucent">true</item>
    <item name="android:windowSplashScreenAnimationDuration">0</item>
</style>
</resources>

Relevant log output

[IX-OmkarP]

@jfversluis as requested, I have created a MAUI .NET 8 sample app.

GitHub repo : - https://github.com/IX-OmkarP/DisableSplashScreenIssue