Cannot resolve maketext() method of Toast

Question

I am getting error while creating a Toast

Toast toast = Toast.makeText(this, text, duration);

I am getting cannot resolve ma

Answer 1

Grab the context from the calling activity (eg. this or MainActivity.this) and pass it into the method your Toast resides in. That way it lives together with the calling activity.

Application context, which you get from getApplicationContext() and getContext() is mainly for long running processes. Using it for short lived processes can lead to memory leaks.