Android Customized Toast

A toast is a view containing a quick little message for the user. A toast provides simple feedback about an operation in a small popup.It only fills the amount of space required for the message and the current activity remains visible and interactive.

The default implementation of a  Toast shows a simple text at the bottom of the screen.
We can change this  default implementation of Toast , we can change the size , color, style and other properties of the text being displayed in Toast.   Not only this we show image and other views in Toast.

Toast.makeText(context,"Your Text", duration).show();

Even we can set a Layout/ View in toast and can make it more decorated.
We can also change the position of the Toast being displayed, we can display it at any place ,top, middle, left, bottom etc  of the screen.

Positioning your Toast:

A standard toast notification appears near the bottom of the screen, centered horizontally. You can change this position with the setGravity(int, int, int) method. This accepts three parameters: a Gravity constant, an x-position offset, and a y-position offset.

For example, if you decide that the toast should appear in the top-left corner, you can set the gravity like this:
 toast.setGravity(Gravity.TOP|Gravity.LEFT, 0, 0);

If you want to nudge the position to the right, increase the value of the second parameter. To nudge it down, increase the value of the last parameter.

Creating Layout for Custom Toast :

my_custom_toast.xml

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
              android:id="@+id/custom_toast_layout"
              android:orientation="horizontal"
              android:layout_width="fill_parent"
              android:layout_height="fill_parent"
              android:padding="8dp"
              android:background="#DAAA"
              >
    <ImageView android:src="@drawable/myimage"
               android:layout_width="wrap_content"
               android:layout_height="wrap_content"
               android:layout_marginRight="8dp"
               />
    <TextView android:id="@+id/textToShow"
              android:layout_width="wrap_content"
              android:layout_height="wrap_content"
              android:textColor="#FFF"
              />
</LinearLayout>

Showing The Toast

                LayoutInflater inflater = getLayoutInflater();
                // Inflate the Layout
                View layout = inflater.inflate(R.layout.my_custom_toast,
                                               (ViewGroup) findViewById(R.id.custom_toast_layout));
     
                TextView text = (TextView) layout.findViewById(R.id.textToShow);
                // Set the Text to show in TextView
                text.setText("My Custom Toast in Center of Screen");

                Toast toast = new Toast(getApplicationContext());
                toast.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL, 0, 0);
                toast.setDuration(Toast.LENGTH_LONG);
                toast.setView(layout);
                toast.show();



With the above example we can create customized toast from an xml layout, we inflate the  xml layout in our code and do the needfull.

We can also create customized toast without creating xml layout,  we can add/select the views at run time runtime and can show in the Toast. This gives us more flexibility to select the Toast Components at runtime.

                

                 // create a LinearLayout and Views

                LinearLayout  layout=new LinearLayout(this);
                layout.setBackgroundResource(R.color.LightOrange);
              
                TextView  tv=new TextView(this);
                // set the TextView properties like color, size etc
                tv.setTextColor(Color.RED);
                tv.setTextSize(15);        

                tv.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL);

                // set the text you want to show in  Toast
                tv.setText("My Custom Toast at Bottom of Screen");  

               ImageView   img=new ImageView(this);

                // give the drawble resource for the ImageView
                img.setImageResource(R.drawable.myimage);

              // add both the Views TextView and ImageView in layout
                layout.addView(img);
                layout.addView(tv);

                Toast toast=new Toast(this); //context is object of Context write "this" if you are an Activity
               // Set The layout as Toast View
                toast.setView(layout);
                     
                  // Position you toast here toast position is 50 dp from bottom you can give any integral value   
                 toast.setGravity(Gravity.BOTTOM, 0, 50);
                 toast.show();

 We can also set/customize  the time interval of the Toast to show. It has been discussed in next post.

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