PhoneGap have just made a breaking change to their Build process. The result is that splash screens no longer appear on Android devices. Luckily, the fix is easy.
In your Project Properties, open the configxml property. You’ll need to change this line:
<gap:splash src="{splashscreen}" gap:role="default" width="320" height="460"/>
to this
<gap:splash src="{splashscreen}"/>
The next build will make this the default for all new projects. However, you will need to modify on existing projects.
More info here:
https://build.phonegap.com/blog/enhanced-icon-and-splash-support