Follwing the new android snackbar, i'm trying to set it to be positioned on a specific y coordinate. Its seems to be not even a possible.
I've tried with getting the parent of the snackbar's view, but, there's nothing to be done to the parent for it to set the position of it.
mSnackBar.getView().getParent();
When digging into the actual class, there's an instance of mView, and mParent which is private, and can't be reached anyhow.
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/design/widget/Snackbar.html
It is possible to set the location that the Snackbar is displayed by positioning a android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
within your existing Activity layout.
For example, say your existing layout is a RelativeLayout
you could add a CoordinatorLayout
as follows:
<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="200dp"
android:id="@+id/myCoordinatorLayout"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentStart="true">
</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>
Then, make sure you pass the CoordinatorLayout
as the first argument of the Snackbar.make()
command.
final View viewPos = findViewById(R.id.myCoordinatorLayout);
Snackbar.make(viewPos, R.string.snackbar_text, Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG)
.setAction(R.string.snackbar_action_undo, showListener)
.show();
This will result in the Snackbar being shown at the bottom of the CoordinatorLayout
provided to the make() function.
If you pass a View
that is not a CoordinatorLayout
the Snackbar will walk up the tree until it finds a CoordinatorLayout
or the root of the layout.
Defining a layout explicitly for the Snackbar may not always be practical.
The issue seems to have been targeting the parent, rather than the Snackbar.
Snackbar snackbar = Snackbar.make(layout, message, duration);
View snackbarLayout = snackbar.getView();
LinearLayout.LayoutParams lp = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(
LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT
);
// Layout must match parent layout type
lp.setMargins(50, 0, 0, 0);
// Margins relative to the parent view.
// This would be 50 from the top left.
snackbarLayout.setLayoutParams(lp);
snackbar.show();