Toast Position - Coding in Flow

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In this video we will learn, how to change the positioning of the default Android toast message, by saving the Toast object we get returned from the makeText method in a variable, and then calling setGravity on it.

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activity_main.xmlMainActivity.java:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context="com.codinginflow.toastpositioningexample.MainActivity">

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:onClick="showToast"
        android:text="Show Toast"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

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

<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

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

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="match_parent"

tools:context="com.codinginflow.toastpositioningexample.MainActivity">

<Button

android:layout_width="wrap_content"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:onClick="showToast"

android:text="Show Toast"

app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"

app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"

app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"

app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

package com.codinginflow.toastpositioningexample;

import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Gravity;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    }

    public void showToast(View v) {
        Toast toast = Toast.makeText(this, "Hello!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
        toast.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL | Gravity.START, 90, 0);
        toast.show();
    }
}

package com.codinginflow.toastpositioningexample;

import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.view.Gravity;

import android.view.View;

import android.widget.Toast;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

@Override

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

}

public void showToast(View v) {

Toast toast = Toast.makeText(this, "Hello!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);

toast.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL | Gravity.START, 90, 0);

toast.show();

}