How to set increase toast message display duration in android programmatically.

In this tutorial we are creating TextView and setting up that textview inside Toast message as a View. Now we are using CountDownTimer to start and stop show toast message on a specific time period. So here is the complete step by step tutorial for Set/Show Toast message to a specific time in android.

How to Set/Show Toast message to a specific time in android.

Code for MainActivity.java file.

 package com.showtoastmessagespecifictime_android_examples.com;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.CountDownTimer;
import android.view.Gravity;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.RelativeLayout;
import android.widget.RelativeLayout.LayoutParams;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

 CountDownTimer countdowntimer = null;
 Button button;
 Toast toastMessage;
 TextView textView;
 @Override
 protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
 super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
 setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
 
 button = (Button)findViewById(R.id.button1);
 
 button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
 
 @Override
 public void onClick(View v) {
 // TODO Auto-generated method stub
 
 //Creating toast message.
 toastMessage = new Toast(MainActivity.this);
 
 //Creating TextView.
 textView = new TextView(MainActivity.this);
 
 //Setting up Text Color.
 textView.setTextColor(Color.parseColor("#fafafa"));
 
 //Setting up Text Size.
 textView.setTextSize(17);
 
 //Setting up Toast Message Text.
 textView.setText("Toast message to a specific time");
 
 //Add padding to Toast message.
 textView.setPadding(20, 20, 20, 23);
 
 //Adding TextView into Toast.
 toastMessage.setView(textView);
 
 //Access toast message as View.
 View toastView = toastMessage.getView();

 //Set Custom Background on Toast.
 toastView.setBackgroundResource(R.layout.toast_message_style);
 
 
 countdowntimer = new CountDownTimer(40000, 1000)
 {
 public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished)
 {
 toastMessage.show();
 }
 public void onFinish()
 {
 toastMessage.cancel();
 }

 }.start();
 
 }
 
 });
 }
}

Code for activity_main.xml layout file.

 <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="com.showtoastmessagespecifictime_android_examples.com.MainActivity" >

 <Button
 android:id="@+id/button1"
 android:layout_width="wrap_content"
 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
 android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
 android:layout_centerVertical="true"
 android:text="Click here to Show Toast message to a specific time in android" />

</RelativeLayout>

Code for toast_message_style.xml file.

 <selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item>
 <shape android:shape="rectangle">
 <solid android:color="#009973"/>
 <corners android:radius="20dp" />
 <stroke
 android:width="4dp"
 android:color="#01ffc0"
 />
 </shape>
</item>
</selector>

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