How to Display Toast Message in Android?

This Android Program lets you create an Activity to create a Toast in an Application using Java.

Toast is Message is displayed on the screen for a shorter or a longer period of time depending on the user need . An application developer can notify the user using this short message. The code shows how to create a toast message, for creating a toast message Android’s Toast class is used.

Here is source code of the Program to create an Activity to create a Toast in an Application. The program is successfully compiled and run on a Windows system using Eclipse Ide. The program output is also shown below.

Main Activity

 
package com.example.creating_toast;
 
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.Toast;
 
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    // creating a menu and adding a toast to it.
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        Button button1 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
        button1.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
 
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                startActivity(new Intent("com.example.creating_toast.toast"));
            }
        });
 
    }
 
    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
        return true;
    }
 
    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        switch (item.getItemId()) {
        case R.id.activity1:
            startActivity(new Intent("com.example.creating_toast.toast"));
 
            return true;
        case R.id.toast:
            Toast var = Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "yep this is a toast",
                    Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
 
            var.show();
            return true;
        }
        return false;
 
    }
 
}

Toast

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package com.example.creating_toast;
 
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
 
public class toast extends Activity{
 
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.about);
    }
 
}

Xml

Main

 
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    tools:context=".MainActivity" >
 
    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_marginLeft="14dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="142dp"
        android:text="Button1" />
 
    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button2"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/button1"
        android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/button1"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:layout_marginRight="28dp"
        android:text="Button2" />
 
</RelativeLayout>

Toast

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >
 
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Yeh this is a toast activity"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />
 
</LinearLayout>

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