Can an Android Toast be longer than Toast.LENGTH_L

Question

When using setDuration() for a Toast, is it possible to set a custom length or at least something longer than Toast.LENGTH_LONG?

Answer 1

Here is a custom Toast class I made using the above code:

import android.content.Context;
import android.os.CountDownTimer;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class CustomToast extends Toast {
    int mDuration;
    boolean mShowing = false;
    public CustomToast(Context context) {
        super(context);
        mDuration = 2;
    }


    /**
     * Set the time to show the toast for (in seconds) 
     * @param seconds Seconds to display the toast
     */
    @Override
    public void setDuration(int seconds) {
        super.setDuration(LENGTH_SHORT);
        if(seconds < 2) seconds = 2; //Minimum
        mDuration = seconds;
    }

    /**
     * Show the toast for the given time 
     */
    @Override
    public void show() {
        super.show();

        if(mShowing) return;

        mShowing = true;
        final Toast thisToast = this;
        new CountDownTimer((mDuration-2)*1000, 1000)
        {
            public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {thisToast.show();}
            public void onFinish() {thisToast.show(); mShowing = false;}

        }.start();  
    }
}

Answer 2

If you need a long Toast, there's a practical alternative, but it requires your user to click on an OK button to make it go away. You can use an AlertDialog like this:

String message = "This is your message";
new AlertDialog.Builder(YourActivityName.this)
    .setTitle("Optional Title (you can omit this)")
    .setMessage(message)
    .setPositiveButton("ok", null)
    .show();

If you have a long message, chances are, you don't know how long it will take for your user to read the message, so sometimes it is a good idea to require your user to click on an OK button to continue. In my case, I use this technique when a user clicks on a help icon.

Answer 3

Simply use SuperToast to make an elegant toast on any situation. Make your toast colourful. Edit your font color and also it's size. Hope it will be all in one for you.

Answer 4

The user cannot custome defined the Toast's duration. because NotificationManagerService's scheduleTimeoutLocked() function not use the field duration. the source code is the following.

private void scheduleTimeoutLocked(ToastRecord r, boolean immediate)
    {
        Message m = Message.obtain(mHandler, MESSAGE_TIMEOUT, r);
        long delay = immediate ? 0 : (r.duration == Toast.LENGTH_LONG ? LONG_DELAY : SHORT_DELAY);
        mHandler.removeCallbacksAndMessages(r);
        mHandler.sendMessageDelayed(m, delay);
    }

Answer 5

You can set the desired time in milliseconds in the Toast.makeText(); method like this:

//40 seconds
long mToastLength = 40*1000 
//this toast will be displayed for 40 seconds.
Toast.makeText(this, "Hello!!!!!", mToastLength).show(); 

Answer 6

The values of LENGTH_SHORT and LENGTH_LONG are 0 and 1. This means they are treated as flags rather than actual durations so I don't think it will be possible to set the duration to anything other than these values.

If you want to display a message to the user for longer, consider a Status Bar Notification. Status Bar Notifications can be programmatically canceled when they are no longer relevant.