controling the displaying time of a toast

Question

I used toasts in my android application. Can I show the toast as long as i wish instead of

Toast.LENGTH_LONG

and

Toast.LENGTH_SHORT

can someone help me with some helpful code segment. Thank you.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14503727/how-can-i-show-a-toast-for-a-specific-duration. — Raghunandan, Dec 04 '13 at 10:53

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 25 '14 at 21:23

What you can do is create a method which with some kind of looping around to make your Toast display as long as duration you want it,

private void showToast(int duration) {
    final Toast toast = Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), 
                                                      "This is a Toast Message!",
                Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
    toast.show();
    new CountDownTimer(duration, 500) {
            public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
                toast.show();
            }
            public void onFinish() {
                toast.cancel();
            }

        }.start();
    }

And then you can call this method as showToast(10000);. So, what it will do is it will keep showing the Toast in loop until the duration and will cancel the toast as the duration is completed.

Virag Brahme · Answer 2 · 2013-12-04T11:24:14.857

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Try this..

final Toast toast = Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "YOUR MESSAGE",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
            toast.show();
            new CountDownTimer(10000, 1000)
            {
                public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {toast.show();}
                public void onFinish() {toast.cancel();}
            }.start();

Enjoy..

edited Dec 04 '13 at 11:24

answered Dec 04 '13 at 10:54

Virag Brahme

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are you sure it will appear for 10 seconds? I don't think so :-) – Lalit Poptani Dec 04 '13 at 10:56
Yes..It will appear for 10 secs – Virag Brahme Dec 04 '13 at 10:57
@Lalit Please try edited answer.. Its working – Virag Brahme Dec 04 '13 at 11:03
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Perhaps you meant `tag.cancel()` inside `onFinish()`? – Andrew T. Dec 04 '13 at 11:05
Yes your right.. apologies for mistake... Also if it is working u can accept the answer – Virag Brahme Dec 04 '13 at 11:06

Hamad · Answer 3 · 2013-12-04T11:19:51.160

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no cannot directly handle that,you have to use handler to cancel the toast like this:

 final Toast toast = Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "This message will disappear         in half second", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
toast.show();

Handler handler = new Handler();
    handler.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
       @Override
       public void run() {
           toast.cancel(); 
       }
}, 500); // 500ms is the time to cancel the toast.

edited Dec 04 '13 at 11:19

answered Dec 04 '13 at 11:05

Hamad

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Doesn't really answer OP's question... – Andrew T. Dec 04 '13 at 11:13
While this code is working, it still probably won't help OP because he wants to have longer duration instead. – Andrew T. Dec 04 '13 at 11:24

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