Android Program to Display Toast at Center of Screen

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

A toast lets a user to show a quick and little message on the screen , u can show a toast by using the Android built in toast or create a toast on your own using the Toast class in Android , the following given code makes a toast to be shown on screen and also display the toast in the center of the screen using Toast.Gravity set method.

Main Activity

package com.example.custom_toast;
 
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Gravity;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;
 
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
 
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        Button click = (Button)findViewById(R.id.button1);
        click.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
 
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                LayoutInflater inflater = getLayoutInflater();
                View layout = inflater.inflate(R.layout.toast_layout,
                                               (ViewGroup) findViewById(R.id.custom_toast_layout));
 
                    text.setText("Custom Toast in Center of Screen");
 
                Toast toast = new Toast(getApplicationContext());
                toast.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL, 0, 0);
                toast.setDuration(Toast.LENGTH_LONG);
                toast.setView(layout);
                toast.show();
            }
        });
    }
 
    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
        return true;
    }
 
}

Toast_Layout

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/custom_toast_layout"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:background="#DAAA"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    android:padding="8dp" >
 
    <ImageView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginRight="8dp"
        android:src="@drawable/ic_launcher" />
 
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/text"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textColor="@android:color/black" />
 
</LinearLayout>

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