Clean up profile activity styles
Clean up SplashScreenActivity
Move getStartPos to instance
Update shared setting
Minor fixups

Use message.obtain, which is a best practice

make method private
Factor out common request generator method
Merge pull request #84 from steventlamb/topic/misc_cleanup

Topic/misc cleanup
wip. All instance switcher stuff.
wip. undo all instance switcher stuff.
Add instance switcher