How to add a custom styled Toast in Android

 How to add a custom styled Toast in Android

A Toast in Android is a feedback message. It takes a very little space for displaying and it is displayed on top of the main content of an activity, and only remains visible for a short time period.

This article explains how to create Custom Toast messages, which has custom background, image, icon, etc, which are not provided by the original Toast library.

In this article, Toasty library of JitPack gradle is used to create a custom toast for the user, as it is a very common library and is used by many apps already.

Add the support Library in your root build.gradle file (not in module build.gradle file). This library jitpack is a novel package repository. It is made for JVM so that any library which is present in github and bigbucket can be directly used in the application.

allprojects { 

    repositories { 

        maven { 

            url "https://jitpack.io"  

        } 

    } 

} 

Add the support Library in your module’s build.gradle file and add dependency in the dependencies section. This dependency is added so that directly different styles of toast can be used in the application.

dependencies { 

         implementation 'com.github.GrenderG:Toasty:1.4.2' 

} 

Now add the following code in the activity_main.xml file. This code adds five buttons in the activity. Each button is used to call differnt style of toasts.

activity_main.xml

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

<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"

    tools:context=".MainActivity"> 

  

    <LinearLayout

        android:layout_width="wrap_content"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:layout_centerInParent="true"

        android:layout_gravity="center"

        android:orientation="vertical"> 

  

        <Button

            android:layout_margin="10dp"

            android:id="@+id/button_warning"

            android:layout_width="wrap_content"

            android:layout_height="wrap_content"

            android:onClick="showToast"

            android:text="show warning toast" /> 

  

        <Button

            android:layout_margin="10dp"

            android:id="@+id/button_info"

            android:layout_width="wrap_content"

            android:layout_height="wrap_content"

            android:onClick="showToast"

            android:text="show info toast" /> 

  

        <Button

            android:layout_margin="10dp"

            android:id="@+id/button_success"

            android:layout_width="wrap_content"

            android:layout_height="wrap_content"

            android:onClick="showToast"

            android:text="show success toast" /> 

  

        <Button

            android:layout_margin="10dp"

            android:id="@+id/button_error"

            android:layout_width="wrap_content"

            android:layout_height="wrap_content"

            android:onClick="showToast"

            android:text="show error toast" /> 

  

        <Button

            android:layout_margin="10dp"

            android:id="@+id/button_normal"

            android:layout_width="wrap_content"

            android:layout_height="wrap_content"

            android:onClick="showToast"

            android:text="show normal toast with an icon" /> 

    </LinearLayout> 

</RelativeLayout> 

Now add the following code in the MainActivity.java file. Now on clicking any button the showToast() function is started and corresponding Toast is displayed.

MainActivity.java

public class MainActivity 

    extends AppCompatActivity { 

  

    @Override

    protected void onCreate( 

        Bundle savedInstanceState) 

    { 

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); 

        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); 

    } 

  

    // We assign this method 

    // on OnClick() method 

    // in activity_main.xml file. 

    public void showToast(View v) 

    { 

        switch (v.getId()) { 

  

        // For Error type Toast 

        case R.id.button_error: 

            Toasty.error(this, 

                         "This is an error Toast", 

                         Toast.LENGTH_SHORT) 

                .show(); 

            break; 

  

        // For Success type Toast 

        case R.id.button_success: 

            Toasty.success(this, 

                           "This is a success Toast", 

                           Toast.LENGTH_SHORT) 

                .show(); 

            break; 

  

        // For Info type Toast 

        case R.id.button_info: 

            Toasty.info(this, 

                        "This is an info Toast", 

                        Toast.LENGTH_SHORT) 

                .show(); 

            break; 

  

        // For Warning type Toast 

        case R.id.button_warning: 

            Toasty.warning(this, 

                           "This is a warning Toast", 

                           Toast.LENGTH_SHORT) 

                .show(); 

            break; 

  

        // For Norma type Toast 

        // with an icon 

        case R.id.button_normal: 

            Toasty.normal( 

                      this, 

                      "This is a normal Toast", 

                      Toast.LENGTH_SHORT, 

                      ContextCompat 

                          .getDrawable( 

                              this, 

                              R.drawable.ic_android_black_24dp)) 

                .show(); 

            break; 

        } 

    } 

}