Android Programming Tutorial 44 : CustomToast In Android

Toast In Android:

Toast is a type of pop-up message which is display for the developer screeen and disappear automatically in a short span of time.

Why Toast ?

One of the main reason to have Toast in android, is to debug our application,

and see does our application working properly or not.

Custom Toast ?

Custom Toast is to display our own Toast message.

Tutorial For Toast :

Create Android Application:

• File >> New >> Android Application
• Enter Project name: CustomToastApp
• Package: com.ambilpursunil.newapp
• Keep other default selections, click Next until you reach Finish

                               

 1.Simply Copy and Past the Code which is display below in the  MainActivity.java 

package com.ambilpursunil.newapp;

import android.app.Activity;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.view.Gravity;

import android.view.LayoutInflater;

import android.view.Menu;

import android.view.View;

import android.view.ViewGroup;

import android.widget.Toast;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

            @Override

            protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

                        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

                        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

                        LayoutInflater li = getLayoutInflater();

                       

                        View v = li.inflate(R.layout.toast, (ViewGroup)findViewById(R.id.customToast));

                       

                        Toast t = new Toast(getApplicationContext());

                        t.setDuration(Toast.LENGTH_LONG);

                        t.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL,0, 0);

                        t.setView(v);

                        t.show();

            }                     

           

  }

2.Simple Copy and Past the below code:  actvitiy_main.xml

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"

    android:layout_width="match_parent"

    android:layout_height="match_parent"

    android:background="#000000">

    <TextView

        android:layout_width="wrap_content"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"

        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"

        android:layout_marginTop="195dp"

        android:text="See Here Its Toasting...."

        android:textColor="#FFFFFF"

        android:textSize="18dp"

        android:textStyle="bold" />

</RelativeLayout>

3.Create another xml file and past the below code    toast.xml

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"

    android:layout_width="match_parent"

    android:layout_height="match_parent"

    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"

    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"

    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"

    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"

    tools:context="com.example.customtoast.MainActivity" >

    <TextView

        android:id="@+id/customeToasttv"

        android:layout_width="wrap_content"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"

        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"

        android:layout_marginTop="172dp"

        android:textSize="18dp"

        android:textStyle="italic"

        android:textColor="#0B610B"

        android:text="CustomToast Megs Is Here...." />

    <ImageView

        android:id="@+id/customToast"

        android:layout_width="wrap_content"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/customeToasttv"

        android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/customeToasttv"

        android:layout_marginBottom="41dp"

        android:layout_marginLeft="34dp"

        android:src="@drawable/andiii" />

</RelativeLayout> 

NOTE: Place image of your choose in any drawable folder.

4.Copy and past the code for manifest.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    package="com.ambilpursunil.newapp"

    android:versionCode="1"

    android:versionName="1.0" >

    <uses-sdk

        android:minSdkVersion="18"

        android:targetSdkVersion="18" />

    <application

        android:allowBackup="true"

        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"

        android:label="@string/app_name"

        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >

        <activity

            android:name=".MainActivity"

            android:label="@string/app_name" >

       <intent-filter>

           <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

           <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>

            </intent-filter>

        </activity>

            </application>

</manifest>

5.Right click on the project and Run As-->Android Application

OutPut:

When our application launch a custom toast wiil appear on the screen for a while and disappear. 

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