It sounds like you are abusing toasts. How about just showing your own dialog that is set up to not get focus or be touchable? You can use this background to make it look like a toast:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.drawable.html#toast_frame And this animation style for the same fade effect: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.style.html#Animation_Toast On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Mohamed Amir <mohamed.a...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Is there a way to make the Toast last for longer time? > > I have tried this code > > Toast t = new Toast(this); > View v = View.inflate(this, R.toast_layout, null); > t.setView(v); > t.setDuration(Toast.LENGTH_LONG); > t.show(); > t.show(); > t.show(); > > By calling show() method more than once, I hoped this would give a > similar effect to lasting for longer time with some flickering, but I > didn't see any difference. > Is there some limit to the number of times that show() method can be > called on the same Toast? e.g. just once per toast instance and > further calling has no effect? > > Any ideas to increase that duration? > > Thank you. > > > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---