Android Toast equivalent in iOS

Question

Does anyone know what the Java Toast equivalent of this iOS Objective C event would be in a Fragment? Below is a sample of what I have written in iOS. What I am looking for the same Alert in Java using a Toast in place of the iOS UIAlert. I am sorry if I did not make that clear on my original post.

- (void) dateLogic {
    NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [dateFormat setDateFormat:@"MMMM dd"];
    NSString *theDate = [dateFormat stringFromDate:[NSDate date]];

    //JANUARY
    if ([theDate isEqualToString:@"January 01"]) {

        feastDay = [[UIAlertView alloc]
                     initWithTitle:@"New Years Day!"
                     message:@"January 01"
                     delegate:self
                     cancelButtonTitle:nil
                     otherButtonTitles:@"Close", nil];
        feastDay.delegate = self;
        [feastDay show];
    }
}

Solution 1

I found this amazing class in github that works like a charm. Toast for iOS It is enough to import the UIView+Toast.h and UIView+Toast.m files and then add

[self.view makeToast:@"This is a piece of toast."];

as written in the page examples.

Solution 2

I handled it with a simple static UI Helper method using the Key Window:

+(void)displayToastWithMessage:(NSString *)toastMessage
{
    [[NSOperationQueue mainQueue] addOperationWithBlock:^ {
        UIWindow * keyWindow = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] keyWindow];
        UILabel *toastView = [[UILabel alloc] init];
        toastView.text = toastMessage;
        toastView.font = [MYUIStyles getToastHeaderFont];
        toastView.textColor = [MYUIStyles getToastTextColor];
        toastView.backgroundColor = [[MYUIStyles getToastBackgroundColor] colorWithAlphaComponent:0.9];
        toastView.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter;
        toastView.frame = CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, keyWindow.frame.size.width/2.0, 100.0);
        toastView.layer.cornerRadius = 10;
        toastView.layer.masksToBounds = YES;
        toastView.center = keyWindow.center;

        [keyWindow addSubview:toastView];

        [UIView animateWithDuration: 3.0f
                          delay: 0.0
                        options: UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseOut
                     animations: ^{
                         toastView.alpha = 0.0;
                     }
                     completion: ^(BOOL finished) {
                         [toastView removeFromSuperview];
                     }
         ];
    }];
}

Solution 3

There is no android toast equivalent in iOS.

But there are always workarounds like

you can animate a view and play with its alpha

The below is just sample code not a solution

UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:3.0f];
imageView.alpha = 0.0f;
[UIView commitAnimations];

if you dont want to slowly fade within 3 seconds, you can use

[UIView setAnimationDelay:3];

and reduce the animation duraction to 0.5f or something. i think using a short fade out time feels better than just simply set hide to YES

Solution 4

We've implemented something like this in our open source library Raisin Toast. Setup is quite straightforward once you add the files to your project:

Add a property to your app delegate:

@property (strong, nonatomic) RZMessagingWindow *errorWindow;

Create the default messaging window:

self.errorWindow = [RZMessagingWindow defaultMessagingWindow];
[RZErrorMessenger setDefaultMessagingWindow:self.errorWindow];

and then one line to present the messaging window:

[RZErrorMessenger displayErrorWithTitle:@"Whoops!" detail:@"Something went horribly wrong and we accidentally cut off the wrong leg"];

The demo project highlights some of the more advanced customizations of adding images and custom styles.

The implementation uses a second UIWindow and because of the RZErrorMessenger class method it's available everywhere.

Solution 5

Maybe this can help someone:

NSString *message = @"Toast kind of message";
UIAlertView *toast = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:nil
                                            message:message
                                           delegate:nil
                                  cancelButtonTitle:nil
                                  otherButtonTitles:nil, nil];
[toast show];
int duration = 1; // in seconds

dispatch_after(dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, duration * NSEC_PER_SEC), dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
[toast dismissWithClickedButtonIndex:0 animated:YES];
});

UPDATE UIAlertView is deprecated in IOS 8. Here the new way:

NSString *message = @"Toast kind of message";

UIAlertController *toast =[UIAlertController alertControllerWithTitle:nil
 message:message 
 preferredStyle:UIAlertControllerStyleAlert];
[self presentViewController:toast animated:YES completion:nil];

int duration = 1; // in seconds

dispatch_after(dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, duration * NSEC_PER_SEC), dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
    [toast dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
});

EDIT: For the ones that using Xamarin.IOS you can do like this:

new UIAlertView(null, message, null, "OK", null).Show();

using UIKit; is required.

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