How to set toast style as a theme?

Question

I want to change all toasts in my App by editing themes.xml.

I am using <item name="buttonStyle">@style/MyButton</item> to change my buttons, is there something similar with Toasts, or do I have to create and use MyToast class which extends the built-in Toast?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 06 '13 at 19:10

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You can change the background of your Toast with this:

<style name="myTheme" parent="@android:styles/Theme.Holo">
  <item name="android:toastFrameBackground">@android:drawable/my_toast</item>
</style>

answered Apr 06 '13 at 19:10

Ahmad

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thank you Ahmad, is there any other customization rather than background? secondly is there a table for all item names such as `android:toastFrameBackground` – guness Apr 07 '13 at 10:07
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@bluebrain you can't set the gravity etc. with styles (as fas as I can tell), you'll have to do that programmatically. Android is open source, so you can find everything in here: https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/master/core/res/res/values/themes.xml – Ahmad Apr 07 '13 at 16:09
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Can you change the background? As another SO posts point out, toastFrameBackgound isn't public. On API 18, I get an error saying no resource was found matching that name. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19215326/styles-toast-background-no-resource-found-that-matches-the-given-name – spaaarky21 Mar 03 '14 at 22:48
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I cannot find `android:toastFrameBackground` in SDK 27. – AutonomousApps Mar 15 '18 at 22:47
This doesn't work for all devices, since "toastFrameBackground" isn't part of the public api {https://github.com/aosp-mirror/platform_frameworks_base/blob/master/core/res/res/values/public.xml}. The safe solution that works on all devices is just to use the `Toast.setView(view)`. – Henry Feb 17 '21 at 05:06

score -3 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 05 '13 at 11:50

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Try this:

 Toast toast=new Toast(this);
     LayoutInflater inflater=this.getLayoutInflater();
     View toastView=inflater.inflate(R.layout.toast_layout, (ViewGroup)findViewById(R.id.toastView));
     TextView txtDate=(TextView)toastView.findViewById(R.id.txtDate);
     txtDate.setText("toast appeared at "+Calendar.getInstance().getTime().toLocaleString());
     toast.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER, 0, 0);
     toast.setView(toastView);
     toast.show();

answered Apr 05 '13 at 11:50

R KiranKumar

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I don't see anything related to 'theme'(which is related to global, not a single toast) here, can you please elaborate the answer? – guness Apr 05 '13 at 12:47

How to set toast style as a theme?

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