How to display Toast at center of screen

In Android I want to display a toast message at the bottom of the screen, I tried this:

Toast.makeText(test.this, "bbb", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

It doesn't work, how do I do it correctly?

To display the Toast in center of the screen.

Toast toast = Toast.makeText(test.this, "bbb", Toast.LENGTH_LONG);
toast.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER, 0, 0);
toast.show();

Positioning your Toast

A standard toast notification appears near the bottom of the screen, centered horizontally. You can change this position with the setGravity(int, int, int) method. This accepts three parameters: a Gravity constant, an x-position offset, and a y-position offset.

For example, if you decide that the toast should appear in the top-left corner, you can set the gravity like this:

toast.setGravity(Gravity.TOP|Gravity.LEFT, 0, 0);

If you want to nudge the position to the right, increase the value of the second parameter. To nudge it down, increase the value of the last parameter.

Before Android 11, to center a Toast, use:

Kotlin:

val toast = Toast.makeText(context, "Test", Toast.LENGTH_LONG)
toast.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER, 0, 0)
toast.show()

Java:

Toast toast = Toast.makeText(context, "Test", Toast.LENGTH_LONG);
toast.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER, 0, 0);
toast.show();

Or a custom view.

Warning: starting on Android 11 (R, API 30), you have no non-legacy way to display a centered toast on Android 11 and above:

• the gravity is not working anymore. See https://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/Toast#setGravity(int,%20int,%20int).
• the custom view is not working, when called from the background (and deprecated anyway). See https://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/Toast#setView(android.view.View)

In Xamarin.Android, this displays toast at center of screen:

            Toast toast = Toast.MakeText(ApplicationContext, "bbb", ToastLength.Long);
            toast.SetGravity(GravityFlags.Center, 0, 0);
            toast.Show();

Layout file for custom toast

<ImageView
android:id="@+id/image"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_marginRight="5dp" />

<TextView
android:id="@+id/text"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:textColor="#000" />

.java file for custom toast on button's click event

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

private Button button;

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

	super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
	setContentView(R.layout.main);

	button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.buttonToast);

	button.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

		@Override
		public void onClick(View arg0) {

			// get your custom_toast.xml ayout
			LayoutInflater inflater = getLayoutInflater();

			View layout = inflater.inflate(R.layout.custom_toast,
			  (ViewGroup) findViewById(R.id.custom_toast_layout_id));

			// set a dummy image
			ImageView image = (ImageView) layout.findViewById(R.id.image);
			image.setImageResource(R.drawable.ic_launcher);

			// set a message
			TextView text = (TextView) layout.findViewById(R.id.text);
			text.setText("Button is clicked!");

			// Toast...
			Toast toast = new Toast(getApplicationContext());
			toast.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL, 0, 0);
			toast.setDuration(Toast.LENGTH_LONG);
			toast.setView(layout);
			toast.show();
		}
	});
}

}

Toast toast = new Toast(context);
        toast.setGravity(Gravity.FILL_HORIZONTAL | Gravity.BOTTOM, 0, 0);
toast.show();

I have tried almost all the ways to make my Toast in center of screen, but it didn't worked for me anyhow (I am having Android 11 Device). So, I and Ruturaj Rathod found a solution to make a Custom Toast.

Warning: I don't know whether this way is a good practice or not.

Let's see how its made in Android Studio, though its Custom Toast its totally modifiable.

Make a new Layout file for example: toast_layout.xml:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/toast_layout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    >

    <androidx.cardview.widget.CardView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:elevation="10dp"
        app:cardCornerRadius="10dp"
        app:cardUseCompatPadding="true"
        app:cardBackgroundColor="#2d2d2d"
        >

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="This is the custom toast"
            android:textSize="20dp"
            android:textColor="@color/white"
            android:layout_margin="10dp"
            />

    </androidx.cardview.widget.CardView>

</LinearLayout>

In your .java file (wherever you want to show your Custom Toast):

View v = View.inflate(this, R.layout.toast_layout, (ViewGroup) findViewById(R.id.toast_layout));
    Toast toast = new Toast(MainActivity.this);
    toast.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER, 0, 0);
    toast.setDuration(Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
    toast.setView(v);
    toast.show();

And, your Custom Toast will look like:

Custom Toast

Showing/ Setting text gravity at center (Horizontally) in koltin

fun Context.longToast(msg: String) {
    Toast.makeText(this, msg, Toast.LENGTH_LONG)
        .apply {
           view.findViewById<TextView>(android.R.id.message)?.gravity = Gravity.CENTER
        }
        .show()
}

The following code can be used to display Toast message

Toast tt = Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this,"Your text displayed here", Toast.LENGTH_LONG);
tt.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER, 0, 0);
tt.show();

For kotlin;

val toast = Toast.makeText(this,"Yes clicked...",Toast.LENGTH_LONG)
            toast.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER,0,0)
            toast.show()

Toast.makeText(test.this, "bbb", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).apply{
setGravity(Gravity.CENTER, 0, 0)}.show()

This way you can do it in one line.

Please use this line:

  setGravity(Gravity.CENTER, 0, 0)}.show()

this can not work on Android 11

The below code worked for me.

Toast.makeText(this, "Toast in center", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).setGravity(Gravity.CENTER,0,0).show();