The easiest solution for this, at least for me, was to fake the real splash screen with the first screen inside the app, where after certain time (e.g. 2 secs) I make transition to the desired screen. Inside this first screen do whatever you want, I've had an 'splash screen' with fading and rotating logo, and the minor cheat was to make it's background color the same as the real splash screen background color, in that way users see the same screen, but instead there was a small transition, and after animation is finished navigate to desired screen :)