Toast Position - Coding in Flow

Please accept YouTube cookies to play this video. By accepting you will be accessing content from YouTube, a service provided by an external third party.

YouTube privacy policy

If you accept this notice, your choice will be saved and the page will refresh.

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.

Show less

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();

}