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Toast
AlertDialog
Notification
 Android Toast

When we talk about "Toast" notification then, Mobile

Data Turned Off , Download Completed "comes to
our mind.Yes, those small pop-ups are called Toast in
Android.

Toast Notification is a Pop-up message that is shown on

the screen for a while and hides itself after a while.
The example below demonstrates the usages of simple and
customized toast in Android.
In Android,Toast is a notification message that pop up, display a
certain amount of time, and automatically fades in and out, most
people just use it for debugging purpose.
Toast is a solution for android developer when required to notify
user about an operation without expecting any user input.
This provides a small popup that displays for a small period and
fades out automatically after timeout. Sometimes developers use
this for debugging.
For example, some of the app shows Press back once to Exit
message when pressed back button in home page.Another real-
time example is Gmail app, It shows a Toast, when a mail
message is saved to draft
 How to Create a Toast
We can instantiate a android.widget.Toast object using
static makeText() method.
This method takes three parameters: the application Context,
the text message, and the duration for the toast.
You can display the toast notification by calling show() method.
 Checkout below code snippet to show an simple toast in
Android
 Toast Types
1. Normal Toast view.
 Toast Types
2. Custom Toast view.
 Toast notification Position
Toast notification in android always appears near the
bottom of the screen, centered horizontally as
shown in the image.
However, it allows us to change its position with
the setGravity(int, int, int) method.
This accepts three parameters:
Gravity constant,
x-position offset,
y-position offset.
 For example, if you decide that the toast should
appear in the top-left corner, you can set the gravity
like this:
 AlertDialog
Some times in your application , if you wanted to ask
the user about taking a decision between yes or no in
response of any particular action taken by the user, by
remaining in the same activity and without changing
the screen, you can use Alert Dialog.
 1setIcon(Drawable icon)
This method set the icon of the alert dialog box.
2setCancelable(boolean cancelable)
This method sets the property that the dialog can be cancelled or
not
3setMessage(CharSequence message)
This method sets the message to be displayed in the alert dialog
4setMultiChoiceItems(CharSequence[] items, boolean[]
checkedItems,
DialogInterface.OnMultiChoiceClickListener listener)
This method sets list of items to be displayed in the dialog as the
content. The selected option will be notified by the listener
5setOnCancelListener(DialogInterface.OnCancelListener
onCancelListener)
This method Sets the callback that will be called if the dialog is
canceled.
6setTitle(CharSequence title)
This method set the title to be appear in the dialog