Friday, 22 April 2016

Android Toast



Android Toast can be used to display information for the short period of time. A toast contains message to be displayed quickly and disappears after sometime.

The android.widget.Toast class is the subclass of java.lang.Object class.

You can also create custom toast as well for example toast displaying image. You can visit next page to see the code for custom toast.


Toast class




Toast class is used to show notification for a particular interval of time. After sometime it disappears. It doesn't block the user interaction.


Constants of Toast class


There are only 2 constants of Toast class which are given below.


Constant Description


 public static final int LENGTH_LONG      displays view for the long duration of time.  
 public static final int LENGTH_SHORT     displays view for the short duration of time.    


Toast Example

 Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Hello Android",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();   

Custom Toast

 Toast toast=Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Hello Android",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);   
 toast.setMargin(50,50);   
 toast.show();