Show splash screen before show main screen in react native without using 3rd party library

You may try this example.There is no need stacknavigator in splash screen.

constructor(props){
    super(props);
    this.state = {
        timePassed: false,
    };
}

componentDidMount() {
    setTimeout( () => {
        this.setTimePassed();
    },1000);
}

setTimePassed() {
    this.setState({timePassed: true});
}

render() {
    if (!this.state.timePassed) {
        return <SplashScreen/>;
    } else {
        return <Login/>;
    }
}

You can always do it the native way:

Fisrt you need images for displaying your splashscreen on different devices:

• LDPI:
  • Portrait: 200x320px
  • Landscape: 320x200px
• MDPI:
  • Portrait: 320x480px
  • Landscape: 480x320px
• HDPI:
  • Portrait: 480x800px
  • Landscape: 800x480px
• XHDPI:
  • Portrait: 720px1280px
  • Landscape: 1280x720px
• XXHDPI:
  • Portrait: 960px1600px
  • Landscape: 1600x960px
• XXXHDPI:
  • Portrait: 1280px1920px
  • Landscape: 1920x1280px

They need to be png format, then put them on android/app/src/main/res/drawable and create a folder named with the resolution of each image. Ex: drawable/drawable-hdpi.

Then in the drawable folder you have to create a file named background_splash.xml and put something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <item>
        <bitmap
            android:gravity="fill"
            android:src="@drawable/screen"/>
    </item>
</selector>

After that you have to add a new style in android/app/res/values/styles.xml

<resources>

    <!-- Base application theme. -->
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
        <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
    </style>

    <style name="SplashTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar">
        <item name="android:windowBackground">@drawable/background_splash</item>
    </style>

</resources>

Update your AndroidManifest.xml file adding a new activity called SplashActivity and add android:theme="@style/SplashTheme". Now create a empty activity with the name MainActibity. Your AndroidManifest.xml should look something like this:

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.exampleapp"
    android:versionCode="1"
    android:versionName="1.0">

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW"/>

    <uses-sdk
        android:minSdkVersion="23"
        android:targetSdkVersion="26" />

    <application
      android:name=".MainApplication"
      android:allowBackup="true"
      android:label="@string/app_name"
      android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
      android:theme="@style/AppTheme">
        <activity
            android:name=".SplashActivity"
            android:label="@string/app_name"
            android:theme="@style/SplashTheme">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
        <activity android:name=".MainActivity" 
            android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize"
            android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"
            android:exported=”true”
        />
      <activity android:name="com.facebook.react.devsupport.DevSettingsActivity" />
    </application>

</manifest>

Now we need to tell SplashActivity to go to the MainActivity, which represents our actual application. To do that you need to create a new Java class named SplashActivity.

package com.exampleapp; // change to the name of your app.

import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;

public class SplashActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        Intent intent = new Intent(this, MainActivity.class);
        startActivity(intent);
        finish();
    }
}

And now you should see a splashscreen.

https://medium.com/handlebar-labs/how-to-add-a-splash-screen-to-a-react-native-app-ios-and-android-30a3cec835ae

The correct way to make a Splash Screen in react is to modify root routes. Firstable you need to create the image for your app. You can do this really fast by uploading your image in the site https://apetools.webprofusion.com/app/#/ where it will create a bundle file with all the images for iOs, windows & android and put them in folders for each device. You need to copy those folders to the route of each device, in case you have any folder created, replace it. Route {device}/app/src/main/res/{folder-name}

In the drawable folder in route {device}/app/src/main/res/drawable you'll have icon.png & screen.png and create a file named

splash_background.xml in this file add the next text

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
  <item>
    <bitmap
      android:gravity="fill"
      android:src="@drawable/screen"
    />
  </item>
</selector>

In the route {device}/app/src/main/java/com/{name-of-project} add a file named SplashActivity.java

In this file SplashActivity.java add the next:

package com.prework;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;

public class SplashActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
  @Override
  protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    Intent intent = new Intent(this, MainActivity.class);
    startActivity(intent);
    finish();
  }
}

In the route {device}/app/src/main/res/values/styles.xml change it as follow:

<resources>

    <!-- Base application theme. -->
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
        <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
    </style>
    <style name="SplashTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar">
        <item name="android:windowBackground">@drawable/splash_background</item>
    </style>

</resources>

And in the route {device}/app/src/main/res/AndroidManifest.xml change it as follow

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.prework">

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW"/>

    <application
      android:name=".MainApplication"
      android:label="@string/app_name"
      android:icon="@drawable/icon"
      android:allowBackup="false"
      android:theme="@style/AppTheme">

      <activity
        android:name=".SplashActivity"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:theme="@style/SplashTheme"
        android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize">

        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
      </activity>

      <activity
        android:name=".MainActivity"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize"
        android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize">
      </activity>

      <activity android:name="com.facebook.react.devsupport.DevSettingsActivity" />
    </application>

</manifest>

Now rebuild your app by running in the command line react-native run-android