Can an Android Toast be longer than Toast LENGTH LONG

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When using setDuration   for a Toast  is it possible to set a custom length or at least something longer than Toast LENGTH LONG

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No  and most all of the hacks listed here no longer work in android 9  But there s a much better solution  if you message needs to hang around  use a dialog box    new AlertDialog Builder this   setTitle  Sorry     setMessage  Please let me know by posting a beta comment on the play store      setPositiveButton  OK   null  create   show

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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

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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  lt  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

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I ve coded up a helper class for doing this  You can see the code at github  https   github com quiqueqs Toast-Expander blob master src com thirtymatches toasted ToastedActivity java  This is how you d display a toast for 5 seconds  or 5000 milliseconds    Toast aToast   Toast makeText this   Hello World   Toast LENGTH SHORT   ToastExpander showFor aToast  5000

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I have developed a Custom Toast class with which you can show Toast for a desired amount of duration  in Milli seconds   import android content Context  import android os Build  import android os Handler  import android util Log  import android util TypedValue  import android view Gravity  import android view View  import android view WindowManager  import android widget TextView   public final class ToastHelper        private static final String TAG   ToastHelper class getName         public static interface OnShowListener           public void onShow ToastHelper toast              public static interface OnDismissListener           public void onDismiss ToastHelper toast              private static final int WIDTH PADDING IN DIP   25      private static final int HEIGHT PADDING IN DIP   15      private static final long DEFAULT DURATION MILLIS   2000L       private final Context context      private final WindowManager windowManager      private View toastView       private int gravity   Gravity CENTER HORIZONTAL   Gravity BOTTOM      private int mX      private int mY      private long duration   DEFAULT DURATION MILLIS      private CharSequence text           private int horizontalMargin      private int verticalMargin      private WindowManager LayoutParams params      private Handler handler      private boolean isShowing      private boolean leadingInfinite       private OnShowListener onShowListener      private OnDismissListener onDismissListener       private final Runnable timer   new Runnable               Override         public void run                 cancel                          public ToastHelper Context context            Context mContext   context getApplicationContext            if  mContext    null                mContext   context                    this context   mContext          windowManager    WindowManager  mContext                  getSystemService Context WINDOW SERVICE           init               private void init             mY   context getResources   getDisplayMetrics   widthPixels   5          params   new WindowManager LayoutParams            params height   WindowManager LayoutParams WRAP CONTENT          params width   WindowManager LayoutParams WRAP CONTENT          params flags   WindowManager LayoutParams FLAG NOT FOCUSABLE                   WindowManager LayoutParams FLAG NOT TOUCHABLE                   WindowManager LayoutParams FLAG KEEP SCREEN ON          params format   android graphics PixelFormat TRANSLUCENT          params type   WindowManager LayoutParams TYPE TOAST          params setTitle  ToastHelper            params alpha   1 0f             params buttonBrightness   1 0f          params packageName   context getPackageName            params windowAnimations   android R style Animation Toast              SuppressWarnings  deprecation        android annotation TargetApi Build VERSION CODES JELLY BEAN      private View getDefaultToastView             TextView textView   new TextView context           textView setText text           textView setGravity Gravity CENTER VERTICAL   Gravity START           textView setClickable false           textView setFocusable false           textView setFocusableInTouchMode false           textView setTextColor android graphics Color WHITE              textView setBackgroundColor Color BLACK           android graphics drawable Drawable drawable   context getResources                    getDrawable android R drawable toast frame           if  Build VERSION SDK INT  lt  16                textView setBackgroundDrawable drawable             else               textView setBackground drawable                     int wP   getPixFromDip context  WIDTH PADDING IN DIP           int hP   getPixFromDip context  HEIGHT PADDING IN DIP           textView setPadding wP  hP  wP  hP           return textView             private static int getPixFromDip Context context  int dip            return  int  TypedValue applyDimension TypedValue COMPLEX UNIT DIP                  dip  context getResources   getDisplayMetrics                public void cancel             removeView true              private void removeView boolean invokeListener            if  toastView    null  amp  amp  toastView getParent      null                try                   Log i TAG   Cancelling Toast                       windowManager removeView toastView                   handler removeCallbacks timer                 finally                   isShowing   false                  if  onDismissListener    null  amp  amp  invokeListener                        onDismissListener onDismiss this                                                        public void show             if  leadingInfinite                throw new InfiniteLoopException                       Calling show   in OnShowListener leads to infinite loop                       cancel            if  onShowListener    null                leadingInfinite   true              onShowListener onShow this               leadingInfinite   false                    if  toastView    null                toastView   getDefaultToastView                      params gravity   android support v4 view GravityCompat                  getAbsoluteGravity gravity  android support v4 view ViewCompat                          getLayoutDirection toastView            if   gravity  amp  Gravity HORIZONTAL GRAVITY MASK     Gravity FILL HORIZONTAL                params horizontalWeight   1 0f                    if   gravity  amp  Gravity VERTICAL GRAVITY MASK     Gravity FILL VERTICAL                params verticalWeight   1 0f                    params x   mX          params y   mY          params verticalMargin   verticalMargin          params horizontalMargin   horizontalMargin           removeView false           windowManager addView toastView  params           isShowing   true          if  handler    null                handler   new Handler                      handler postDelayed timer  duration              public boolean isShowing             return isShowing             public void setDuration long durationMillis            this duration   durationMillis             public void setView View view            removeView false           toastView   view             public void setText CharSequence text            this text   text             public void setText int resId            text   context getString resId              public void setGravity int gravity  int xOffset  int yOffset            this gravity   gravity          mX   xOffset          mY   yOffset             public void setMargin int horizontalMargin  int verticalMargin            this horizontalMargin   horizontalMargin          this verticalMargin   verticalMargin             public long getDuration             return duration             public int getGravity             return gravity             public int getHorizontalMargin             return horizontalMargin             public int getVerticalMargin             return verticalMargin             public int getXOffset             return mX             public int getYOffset             return mY             public View getView             return toastView             public void setOnShowListener OnShowListener onShowListener            this onShowListener   onShowListener             public void setOnDismissListener OnDismissListener onDismissListener            this onDismissListener   onDismissListener             public static ToastHelper makeText Context context  CharSequence text              long durationMillis            ToastHelper helper   new ToastHelper context           helper setText text           helper setDuration durationMillis           return helper             public static ToastHelper makeText Context context  int resId              long durationMillis            String string   context getString resId           return makeText context  string  durationMillis              public static ToastHelper makeText Context context  CharSequence text            return makeText context  text  DEFAULT DURATION MILLIS              public static ToastHelper makeText Context context  int resId            return makeText context  resId  DEFAULT DURATION MILLIS              public static void showToast Context context  CharSequence text            makeText context  text  DEFAULT DURATION MILLIS  show               public static void showToast Context context  int resId            makeText context  resId  DEFAULT DURATION MILLIS  show               private static class InfiniteLoopException extends RuntimeException           private static final long serialVersionUID   6176352792639864360L           private InfiniteLoopException String msg                super msg

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You may want to try   for  int i 0  i  lt  2  i            Toast makeText this   blah   Toast LENGTH LONG  show        to double the time  If you specify 3 instead the 2 it will triple the time  etc

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private Toast mToastToShow    public void showToast View view        Set the toast and duration  int toastDurationInMilliSeconds   10000   mToastToShow   Toast makeText this   Hello world  I am a toast     Toast LENGTH LONG        Set the countdown to display the toast  CountDownTimer toastCountDown   toastCountDown   new CountDownTimer toastDurationInMilliSeconds  1000   Tick duration        public void onTick long millisUntilFinished         mToastToShow show          public void onFinish          mToastToShow cancel                          Show the toast and starts the countdown      mToastToShow show         toastCountDown start

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Toast makeText this   Text   Toast LENGTH LONG  show     Toast makeText this   Text   Toast LENGTH LONG  show      A very simple solution to the question  Twice or triple of them will make Toast last longer  It is the only way around

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LONG DELAY toast display for 3 5 sec and SHORT DELAY toast display for 2 sec   Toast internally use INotificationManager and calls it s enqueueToast method every time a Toast show   is called   Call the show   with SHORT DELAY twice will enqueue same toast again  it will display for 4 sec   2 sec   2 sec    similarly  call the show   with LONG DELAY twice will enqueue same toast again  it will display for 7 sec   3 5 sec   3 5 sec

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Schedule a countdown until a time in the future  with regular notifications on intervals along the way  Example of showing a 30 second countdown in a text field           new CountDownTimer 30000  1000          public void onTick long millisUntilFinished             mTextField setText  seconds remaining      millisUntilFinished   1000                public void onFinish              mTextField setText  done                start

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After failing with every available solution  I finally had workaround using recursion   Code     Recursive function  pass duration in seconds public void showToast int duration        if  duration  lt   0          return       Toast makeText this   Hello  it s a toast   Toast LENGTH LONG  show        Handler handler   new Handler        handler postDelayed new Runnable              Override         public void run                 showToast duration-1                    1000

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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

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This text will disappear in 5 seconds        final Toast toast   Toast makeText getApplicationContext     My Text   Toast LENGTH SHORT       toast show         Handler handler   new Handler            handler postDelayed new Runnable                 Override            public void run                    toast cancel                         5000      Change to what you want   Edit  As Itai Spector in comment said it will be shown about 3 5 seconds  So use this code       int toastDuration   5000     in MilliSeconds     Toast mToast   Toast makeText this   My text   Toast LENGTH LONG       CountDownTimer countDownTimer      countDownTimer   new CountDownTimer toastDuration  1000            public void onTick long millisUntilFinished                mToast show                       public void onFinish                 mToast cancel                          mToast show        countDownTimer start

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As mentioned by others Android Toasts can either be LENGTH LONG or LENGTH SHORT  There is no way around this  nor should you follow any of the  hacks  posted   The purpose of Toasts are to display  non-essential  information and due to their lingering effect  messages may be put far out of context if their duration exceeds a certain threshold  If stock Toasts were modified so that they can display longer than LENGTH LONG the message would linger on the screen until the application s process is terminated as toast views are added to the WindowManager and not a ViewGroup in your app  I would assume this is why it is hard coded    If you absolutely need to show a toast style message longer than three and a half seconds I recommend building a view that gets attached to the Activity s content  that way it will disappear when the user exits the application  My SuperToasts library deals with this issue and many others  feel free to use it  You would most likely be interested in using SuperActivityToasts

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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

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If you dig deeper in android code  you can find the lines that clearly indicate  that we cannot change the duration of Toast message    NotificationManagerService scheduleTimeoutLocked                 long delay   immediate   0    r duration    Toast LENGTH LONG   LONG DELAY   SHORT DELAY           and default values for duration are  private static final int LONG DELAY   3500     3 5 seconds private static final int SHORT DELAY   2000     2 seconds

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A very simple approach to creating a slightly longer message is as follows   private Toast myToast   public MyView Context context      myToast   Toast makeText getContext        Toast LENGTH LONG      private Runnable extendStatusMessageLengthRunnable   new Runnable        Override     public void run           Show the toast for another interval      myToast show              public void displayMyToast final String statusMessage  boolean extraLongDuration      removeCallbacks extendStatusMessageLengthRunnable      myToast setText statusMessage     myToast show       if extraLongDuration        postDelayed extendStatusMessageLengthRunnable  3000L           Note that the above example eliminates the LENGTH SHORT option to keep the example simple   You will generally not want to use a Toast message to display messages for very long intervals  as that is not the Toast class  intended purpose   But there are times when the amount of text you need to display could take the user longer than 3 5 seconds to read  and in that case a slight extension of time  e g   to 6 5 seconds  as shown above  can  IMO  be useful and consistent with the intended usage

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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

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Toast duration can be hacked using a thread that runs the toast exclusively  This works  runs the toast for 10 secs  modify sleep and ctr to your liking    final Toast toast   Toast makeText this   Your Message   Toast LENGTH LONG    Thread t   new Thread        public void run              int ctr   0            try                 while  ctr lt 10                        toast show                        sleep 1000                       ctr                                 catch  Exception e                   Log e  Error       e                           t start

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If you want a Toast to persist  I found you can hack your way around it by having a Timer call toast show   repeatedly  every second or so should do   Calling show   doesn t break anything if the Toast is already showing  but it does refresh the amount of time it stays on the screen

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Use Crouton  it is a very flexible Toast library   Crouton  You can use it just like toasts   Crouton makeText context   YOUR MESSAGE   Style INFO     or you can even go a little deeper and customise it more  like setting the time to infinite  for example here I want to show a toast message until the user acknowledges it by clicking on it   private static void showMessage final Activity context  MessageType type  String header  String message        View v   context getLayoutInflater   inflate R layout toast layout  null       TextView headerTv    TextView  v findViewById R id toastHeader       headerTv setText header       TextView messageTv    TextView  v findViewById R id toastMessage       messageTv setText message       ImageView toastIcon    ImageView  v findViewById R id toastIcon        final Crouton crouton   getCrouton context  v       v setOnClickListener new View OnClickListener              Override         public void onClick View v                Crouton hide crouton                          crouton show       private static Crouton getCrouton final Activity context  View v        Crouton crouton   Crouton make context  v       crouton setConfiguration new Configuration Builder   setDuration Configuration DURATION INFINITE  build         return crouton      Custome Layout that will be inflated for the toast    lt LinearLayout xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android      xmlns tools  http   schemas android com tools      android layout width  match parent      android layout height  wrap content      android animateLayoutChanges  true      android background   drawable shadow container      android gravity  center vertical      android orientation  horizontal      android padding   dimen default margin      tools ignore  Overdraw  gt        lt ImageView         android id    id toastIcon          android layout width  wrap content          android layout height  wrap content    gt        lt LinearLayout         android layout width  0dp          android layout height  wrap content          android layout marginStart   dimen default spacing full          android layout weight  1          android orientation  vertical  gt            lt TextView             android id    id toastHeader              style   style ItemText              android layout width  wrap content              android layout height  wrap content    gt            lt TextView             android id    id toastMessage              style   style ItemSubText              android layout width  wrap content              android layout height  wrap content    gt        lt  LinearLayout gt    lt  LinearLayout gt

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Here is a very simple method which worked for me    for  int i 0  i  lt  3  i          Toast makeText this   MESSAGE   Toast LENGTH SHORT  show       The duration of LENGTH SHORT is 2 seconds and LENGTH LONG is 3 5 seconds  Here the toast message will be shown for 6 Seconds since it is enclosed in a for loop  But a drawback of this method is after each 2 sec a small fading effect may arise  but it is not much noticeable   Hope it is helpful

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Why eat Toast  when you can have the entire Snackbar  https   developer android com reference android support design widget Snackbar html  Snackbar   Toast  Custom Toast  Crouton

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I know the answer is quite late    I had the very same issue and decided to implement my own version of bare bones Toast   after looking into android s source code for toast     Basically you need to create a new Window manager   and show and hide the window for the desired duration duration using a handler     Create your handler  Handler mHandler   new Handler       Custom Toast Layout mLayout   layoutInflater inflate R layout customtoast  null      Initialisation   mWindowManager    WindowManager  context getApplicationContext                getSystemService Context WINDOW SERVICE   WindowManager LayoutParams params   new WindowManager LayoutParams     params gravity   Gravity BOTTOM params height   WindowManager LayoutParams WRAP CONTENT  params width   WindowManager LayoutParams WRAP CONTENT  params flags   WindowManager LayoutParams FLAG NOT FOCUSABLE                   WindowManager LayoutParams FLAG NOT TOUCHABLE                   WindowManager LayoutParams FLAG KEEP SCREEN ON  params format   PixelFormat TRANSLUCENT  params windowAnimations   android R style Animation Toast  params type   WindowManager LayoutParams TYPE TOAST    After initialization of the layout you can use your own hide and show methods       public void handleShow         mWindowManager addView mLayout  mParams              public void handleHide             if  mLayout    null                if  mLayout getParent      null                    mWindowManager removeView mLayout                                          mLayout   null              Now all you need is to add two runnable threads which calls the handleShow   and the handleHide   which you could post to the Handler        Runnable toastShowRunnable   new Runnable             public void run                 handleShow                       Runnable toastHideRunnable   new Runnable             public void run                 handleHide                        and the final part   public void show          mHandler post toastShowRunnable         The duration that you want     mHandler postDelayed toastHideRunnable  mDuration        This was a quick and dirty implementation    Have not taken any performance into consideration

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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

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I know I am a bit late  but I took Regis AG s answer and wrapped it in a helper class and it works great   public class Toaster     private static final int SHORT TOAST DURATION   2000     private Toaster         public static void makeLongToast String text  long durationInMillis        final Toast t   Toast makeText App context    text  Toast LENGTH SHORT       t setGravity Gravity TOP   Gravity CENTER HORIZONTAL  0  0        new CountDownTimer Math max durationInMillis - SHORT TOAST DURATION  1000   1000           Override       public void onFinish             t show                    Override       public void onTick long millisUntilFinished            t show                  start            In your application code  just do something like this       Toaster makeLongToast  Toasty    8000

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Sets toast to a specific period in milli-seconds   public void toast int millisec  String msg        Handler handler   null      final Toast   toasts   new Toast 1       for int i   0  i  lt  millisec  i  2000            toasts 0    Toast makeText this  msg  Toast LENGTH SHORT           toasts 0  show            if handler    null                handler   new Handler                handler postDelayed new Runnable                      Override                 public void run                         toasts 0  cancel                                     millisec

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A toast with custom background and view did the trick for me  I tested it in nexus 7 tablet and I noticed no fadein fadeout animation during looping  Heres the implementation   public static void customToast Context context  String message  int duration         for  int i   0  i  lt  duration  i              Toast toast   new Toast context           toast setDuration Toast LENGTH LONG           toast setGravity Gravity CENTER  0  0           LayoutInflater inflater    LayoutInflater  context                  getSystemService Context LAYOUT INFLATER SERVICE           View view   inflater inflate R layout toast layout  null           TextView textViewToast    TextView  view                  findViewById R id textViewToast           textViewToast setText message           toast setView view           toast show               Heres the custom textview used in above code    lt TextView xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android  android id    id textViewToast  android layout width  wrap content  android layout height  wrap content  android background   drawable fragment background  android padding  8dp  android text  Large Text  android textAppearance   android attr textAppearanceLarge  android textColor   color blue    gt     drawable fragment background is making my toast have rounded corner as in kitkat version  You can add other views too in the file  Any modifications for improvement and comments are encouraged as I am planning to implement this in my live app

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