Android 9 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

Creating a Toast with a custom layout

We've used Toasts quite a bit already in previous chapters as they provide a quick and easy way to display information, both for user notification and for ourselves when debugging.

The previous examples have all used the simple one-line syntax, but Toasts aren't limited to this. Toasts, like most components in Android, can be customized, as we'll demonstrate in this recipe.

Android Studio offers a shortcut for making a simple Toast statement. As you start to type the Toast command, you'll see the following:

Press Enter to auto-complete. Then, press Ctrl + spacebar and you'll see the following:

When you ...