How to toast custom message in sketchware

To create Custom toasted message in sketchware  follow these steps

1. In your Sketchware android project, in VIEW area, create a new CustomView with name custom1. In this CustomView add a LinearH linear1 and a TextView textview1.

Customize the textview1 and linear1 as per your requirement.

2. In LOGIC area, add a new More Block with name customToast(String _text) as shown in image below.

3. Next define this customToast Block. In event customToast MoreBlock use add source directlyblock, and in the block, write codes as described below.

First define a new LayoutInflater and use it to create a View from the CustomView.

LayoutInflater inflater = getLayoutInflater();

View toastLayout = inflater.inflate(R.layout.custom1, null);

To Initialize textview1 and linear1 used in CustomView.

TextView textview1 = (TextView) toastLayout.findViewById(R.id.textview1);

LinearLayout linear1 = (LinearLayout) toastLayout.findViewById(R.id.linear1);

Set the text of textview1 to String _text.

textview1.setText(_text);

Create a new Toast.

Toast toast = new Toast(getApplicationContext());

Set duration of Toast.

Short:

toast.setDuration(Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);

Long :

toast.setDuration(Toast.LENGTH_LONG);

Code to improve the look of toasted message using gradient drawable

android.graphics.drawable.GradientDrawable gd = new android.graphics.drawable.GradientDrawable();

gd.setCornerRadius(60);

gd.setStroke(2, Color.parseColor("#ff0000"));

linear1.setBackground(gd);

Set the View created from CustomView, as view of Toast.

toast.setView(toastLayout);

Show the Toast.

toast.show();

The Whole  code Given above should look like this:

LayoutInflater inflater = getLayoutInflater(); View toastLayout = inflater.inflate(R.layout.custom1, null);

TextView textview1 = (TextView) toastLayout.findViewById(R.id.textview1);

textview1.setText(_text);

LinearLayout linear1 = (LinearLayout) toastLayout.findViewById(R.id.linear1);

android.graphics.drawable.GradientDrawable gd = new android.graphics.drawable.GradientDrawable();

gd.setCornerRadius(60);

gd.setStroke(2, Color.parseColor("#ff0000"));

linear1.setBackground(gd);

Toast toast = new Toast(getApplicationContext()); toast.setDuration(Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);

toast.setView(toastLayout);

toast.show();

4. Use the more Block whenever you want to display a custom Toast, as shown in image below.

5. Save and run the project.