diff --git a/lib/prepare.js b/lib/prepare.js
index 68ff7120..bb97c400 100644
--- a/lib/prepare.js
+++ b/lib/prepare.js
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ module.exports.prepare = function (cordovaProject, options) {
 
     // Update own www dir with project's www assets and plugins' assets and js-files
     return Promise.resolve(updateWww(cordovaProject, this.locations))
+        .then(() => warnForDeprecatedSplashScreen(cordovaProject))
         .then(() => updateProjectAccordingTo(self._config, self.locations))
         .then(function () {
             updateIcons(cordovaProject, path.relative(cordovaProject.root, self.locations.res));
@@ -353,6 +354,16 @@ function updateProjectStrings (platformConfig, locations) {
     events.emit('verbose', 'Wrote out android application name "' + name + '" to ' + locations.strings);
 }
 
+function warnForDeprecatedSplashScreen (cordovaProject) {
+    const hasOldSplashTags = (
+        cordovaProject.projectConfig.doc.findall('./platform[@name="android"]/splash') || []
+    ).length > 0;
+
+    if (hasOldSplashTags) {
+        events.emit('warn', 'The "<splash>" tags were detected and are no longer supported. Please migrate to the "preference" tag "AndroidWindowSplashScreenAnimatedIcon".');
+    }
+}
+
 /**
  * @param   {ConfigParser}  platformConfig  A project's configuration that will
  *   be used to update project
diff --git a/spec/unit/prepare.spec.js b/spec/unit/prepare.spec.js
index 8dec31eb..be541b83 100644
--- a/spec/unit/prepare.spec.js
+++ b/spec/unit/prepare.spec.js
@@ -766,6 +766,8 @@ describe('prepare', () => {
             prepare.__set__('updateWww', jasmine.createSpy());
             prepare.__set__('updateProjectAccordingTo', jasmine.createSpy('updateProjectAccordingTo')
                 .and.returnValue(Promise.resolve()));
+            prepare.__set__('warnForDeprecatedSplashScreen', jasmine.createSpy('warnForDeprecatedSplashScreen')
+                .and.returnValue(Promise.resolve()));
             prepare.__set__('updateIcons', jasmine.createSpy('updateIcons').and.returnValue(Promise.resolve()));
             prepare.__set__('updateFileResources', jasmine.createSpy('updateFileResources').and.returnValue(Promise.resolve()));
             prepare.__set__('updateConfigFilesFrom',
@@ -859,6 +861,8 @@ describe('prepare', () => {
             prepare.__set__('updateWww', jasmine.createSpy('updateWww'));
             prepare.__set__('updateIcons', jasmine.createSpy('updateIcons').and.returnValue(Promise.resolve()));
             prepare.__set__('updateProjectSplashScreen', jasmine.createSpy('updateProjectSplashScreen'));
+            prepare.__set__('warnForDeprecatedSplashScreen', jasmine.createSpy('warnForDeprecatedSplashScreen')
+                .and.returnValue(Promise.resolve()));
             prepare.__set__('updateFileResources', jasmine.createSpy('updateFileResources').and.returnValue(Promise.resolve()));
             prepare.__set__('updateConfigFilesFrom',
                 jasmine.createSpy('updateConfigFilesFrom')