Showing Toast for Longer Time

By default a toast is displayed for 1 or 2 seconds. We can customize this thime and can show the toast for longer time 5,10,20 seconds etc.

We use  CountDownTimer class for this purpose.

CountDownTimer  

IT is an abstarct class you can see details  CountDownTimer

Display  Toast  for longer time

In this example we will show the toast for 20Seconds (20000 milliseconds)

public class ToastActivity extends Activity
{
    AlertDialog dialog;
   
     static CountDownTimer timer =null;
     Toast toast;
     @Override
        public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
        {
                super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
                

                // creating toast and setting properties

                toast = new Toast(this);
                TextView textView=new TextView(this);
                textView.setTextColor(Color.BLUE);
                textView.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
                textView.setTextSize(20);
                textView.setText("This Toast will Display for 20 Seconds in Center of The Screen");
                toast.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL, 0, 0);

                toast.setView(textView);
               

               //    Toast Display tTime Settings

               
                // Create the CountDownTimer object and implement the 2 methods
                // show the toast in onTick() method  and cancel the toast in onFinish() method
                // it will show the toast for 20 seconds (20000 milliseconds 1st argument) with interval of 1 second(2nd argument)
 
                timer =new CountDownTimer(20000, 1000)
                {
                    public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished)
                    {
                        toast.show();
                    }
                    public void onFinish()
                    {
                        toast.cancel();
                    }

                }.start();
               
          }
}

 

We can also cancel our toast before specified tine of 20 Seconds  on a particular condition with following code

// Cancelling toast on a particular condition

                if(your conditinal expression)
                {
                    timer.cancel();
                }

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