Can an Android Toast be longer than Toast.LENGTH_LONG?

If you dig deeper in android code, you can find the lines that clearly indicate, that we cannot change the duration of Toast message.

 NotificationManagerService.scheduleTimeoutLocked() {
    ...
    long delay = immediate ? 0 : (r.duration == Toast.LENGTH_LONG ? LONG_DELAY : SHORT_DELAY);
    }

and default values for duration are

private static final int LONG_DELAY = 3500; // 3.5 seconds
private static final int SHORT_DELAY = 2000; // 2 seconds

The values of LENGTH_SHORT and LENGTH_LONG are 0 and 1. This means they are treated as flags rather than actual durations so I don't think it will be possible to set the duration to anything other than these values.

If you want to display a message to the user for longer, consider a Status Bar Notification. Status Bar Notifications can be programmatically canceled when they are no longer relevant.


You may want to try:

for (int i=0; i < 2; i++)
{
      Toast.makeText(this, "blah", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}

to double the time. If you specify 3 instead the 2 it will triple the time..etc.