I have designed an application for android, in which i am showing a splash screen before the main activity is started but the application takes 5-7 seconds to start on low-end devices. I want to reduce that time to as low as possible. I have been trying to reduce the things to be done in onCreate() but now i cannot remove any thing more from that. I am pasting the code that i have used to show the splash and the code from MainActivity. Please help me in reducing the startup time of the application.

Splash.java

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    this.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_splash);
    txtLoad = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.txtLoading);
    txtLoad.setText("v1.0");

    new Thread() {
        public void run() {
            try {
                sleep(1000);
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            } finally {
                finish();
                Intent intent = new Intent(SplashActivity.this,MainActivity.class);
                startActivity(intent);
            }
        }
    }.start();
}

MainActivity.java

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    this.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    editType1UserName = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editTextType1UserName);
    editType1Password = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editTextType1Password);
    editType2UserName = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editTextType2UserName);
    editType2Password = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editTextType2Password);
    editType3UserName = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editTextType3UserName);
    editType3Password = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editTextType3Password);
    editType4UserName = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editTextType4UserName);
    editType4Password = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editTextType4Password);
    mTxtPhoneNo = (AutoCompleteTextView) findViewById(R.id.mmWhoNo);
    mTxtPhoneNo.setThreshold(1);
    editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editTextMessage);
    spinner1 = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinnerGateway);
    btnsend = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnSend);
    btnContact = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnContact);
    btnsend.setOnClickListener((OnClickListener) this);
    btnContact.setOnClickListener((OnClickListener) this);
    mPeopleList = new ArrayList<Map<String, String>>();
    PopulatePeopleList();
    mAdapter = new SimpleAdapter(this, mPeopleList, R.layout.custcontview,
            new String[] { "Name", "Phone", "Type" }, new int[] {
                    R.id.ccontName, R.id.ccontNo, R.id.ccontType });
    mTxtPhoneNo.setAdapter(mAdapter);
    mTxtPhoneNo.setOnItemClickListener((OnItemClickListener) this);
    readPerson();
    Panel panel;
    topPanel = panel = (Panel) findViewById(R.id.mytopPanel);
    panel.setOnPanelListener((OnPanelListener) this);
    panel.setInterpolator(new BounceInterpolator(Type.OUT));
    getLoginDetails();

}