[android-beginners] What is a toast?
Hi, Could somebody give me some detailed information about toast? I got a comment saying that This is called a toast and cannot be dismissed by the user. Toasts are dismissed automatically after a fixed period of time. Then why the period of time for a toast is more, which degrades the user experience. Thanks Regards Pushkar Setty -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en
Re: [android-beginners] What is a toast?
Think of Toast like a subtitle in movies. It's a simple text that shows for X seconds. It has no buttons, it's like a bubble that tells you something happened, then vanishes out. If you setup a long period for a toast, that will be visible too long and will degrade the user experience, as in movies if you have a subtitle on screen for a long time, longer then the speech, you dislike it. http://www.androidx.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/android-toast-usage-03.png 2009/11/10 pushkar bandi pushkarse...@gmail.com Hi, Could somebody give me some detailed information about toast? I got a comment saying that This is called a toast and cannot be dismissed by the user. Toasts are dismissed automatically after a fixed period of time. Then why the period of time for a toast is more, which degrades the user experience. Thanks Regards Pushkar Setty -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comandroid-beginners%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -- Márton -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en
Re: [android-beginners] What is a toast?
From the dev guide (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/Toast.html): A toast is a view containing a quick little message for the user. The toast class helps you create and show those. When the view is shown to the user, appears as a floating view over the application. It will never receive focus. The user will probably be in the middle of typing something else. The idea is to be as unobtrusive as possible, while still showing the user the information you want them to see. Two examples are the volume control, and the brief message saying that your settings have been saved. Think of it like the transient notification pop-ups you get in Pidgin or MSN messenger. It appears for a pre-determined amount of time, at a position specified by the developer. It differs from a pop-up dialog because you can continue to interact with the UI whilst it is being displayed, and you are not expected to act on it. The period of time for a toast is customisable, you want to use the setDuration() method to change it: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/Toast.html#setDuration(int). On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:25 AM, pushkar bandi pushkarse...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Could somebody give me some detailed information about toast? I got a comment saying that This is called a toast and cannot be dismissed by the user. Toasts are dismissed automatically after a fixed period of time. Then why the period of time for a toast is more, which degrades the user experience. Thanks Regards Pushkar Setty -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en
