Toast - Special Feature in Android

Hi Guys already we have seen a little introduction about Android.Lets move to some of the features provided by Android. Firstly we are going to see about a concept of feedback or notification alike mechanism Toast.

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. For example, After sending a message it shows message send . Toasts automatically disappear after a timeout.

General procedure  to create a toast,

First, instantiate a Toast object with one of the makeText() methods. This method takes three parameters: the application Context, your message, and the duration for the toast. It returns a properly  Toast object. You can display it by toast followed by show(),as shown in the following example:


Context context = getApplicationContext(); CharSequence text = "Innov Techs"; int duration = Toast.LENGTH_SHORT; Toast toast = Toast.makeText(context, text, duration); toast.show();  

you may also write it as,

//Show alert for short period of time Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Innov Techs", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); //Show alert for long period of time Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Innov Techs", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show(); 

 In our next post we can see about how to create a custom toast alert etc.