What is the android.widget.Toast equivalent for iOS applications?

I have made Android application a few months ago. The Toast class is very useful for me. I do not need to consider the main Thread and place to show it. Anywhere I can show it and just leave that and it is automatically disappeared.

Toast.makeToast(context, msg, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

That's it. ^^

What about iPhone? Is there something like the Toast? Just show message and do not need to care about it. It will be automatically disappeared.

Solution 1:

I've been writing for Android for a long time and I am missing Toast. I've implemented one. Need code? here you are:

ToastView.h

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface ToastView : UIView

@property (strong, nonatomic) NSString *text;

+ (void)showToastInParentView: (UIView *)parentView withText:(NSString *)text withDuaration:(float)duration;

@end

ToastView.m

#import "ToastView.h"

@interface ToastView ()
@property (strong, nonatomic, readonly) UILabel *textLabel;
@end
@implementation ToastView
@synthesize textLabel = _textLabel;

float const ToastHeight = 50.0f;
float const ToastGap = 10.0f;

- (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame
{
    self = [super initWithFrame:frame];
    if (self) {
        // Initialization code
    }
    return self;
}

-(UILabel *)textLabel
{
    if (!_textLabel) {
        _textLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(5.0, 5.0, self.frame.size.width - 10.0, self.frame.size.height - 10.0)];
        _textLabel.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
        _textLabel.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter;
        _textLabel.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
        _textLabel.numberOfLines = 2;
        _textLabel.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:13.0];
        _textLabel.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakByCharWrapping;
        [self addSubview:_textLabel];

    }
    return _textLabel;
}

- (void)setText:(NSString *)text
{
    _text = text;
    self.textLabel.text = text;
}

+ (void)showToastInParentView: (UIView *)parentView withText:(NSString *)text withDuaration:(float)duration;
{

    //Count toast views are already showing on parent. Made to show several toasts one above another
    int toastsAlreadyInParent = 0;
    for (UIView *subView in [parentView subviews]) {
        if ([subView isKindOfClass:[ToastView class]])
        {
            toastsAlreadyInParent++;
        }
    }

    CGRect parentFrame = parentView.frame;

    float yOrigin = parentFrame.size.height - (70.0 + ToastHeight * toastsAlreadyInParent + ToastGap * toastsAlreadyInParent);

    CGRect selfFrame = CGRectMake(parentFrame.origin.x + 20.0, yOrigin, parentFrame.size.width - 40.0, ToastHeight);
    ToastView *toast = [[ToastView alloc] initWithFrame:selfFrame];

    toast.backgroundColor = [UIColor darkGrayColor];
    toast.alpha = 0.0f;
    toast.layer.cornerRadius = 4.0;
    toast.text = text;

    [parentView addSubview:toast];

    [UIView animateWithDuration:0.4 animations:^{
        toast.alpha = 0.9f;
        toast.textLabel.alpha = 0.9f;
    }completion:^(BOOL finished) {
        if(finished){

        }
    }];


    [toast performSelector:@selector(hideSelf) withObject:nil afterDelay:duration];

}

- (void)hideSelf
{

    [UIView animateWithDuration:0.4 animations:^{
        self.alpha = 0.0;
        self.textLabel.alpha = 0.0;
    }completion:^(BOOL finished) {
        if(finished){
            [self removeFromSuperview];
        }
    }];
}

@end

Call from ViewController

 [ToastView showToastInParentView:self.view withText:@"What a toast!" withDuaration:5.0];

Solution 2:

There is no class "out-of-the-box" in UIKit to do this. But it is quite easy to create a class that will offer this behavior.

You just have to create a class that inherit from UIView. This class will have the responsibility - to create what you want to display, - to add itself in parent view hierarchy - to dismiss itself using a timer.

You will be able to use it like :

[ToastView toastViewInView:myParentView withText:@"what a wonderful text"];

Regards, Quentin

Solution 3:

Have not tried but you might want to check:

https://github.com/ecstasy2/toast-notifications-ios

https://github.com/scalessec/Toast