How to prevent Multiple Toast Overlaps

Question

I\'ve been using a common \"myToast\" which I use \"myToast.cancel() prior to issuing a new toast. For Android v2.3 and older, this works great. When a new toas

Answer 1

Did nandeesh's solution not work for you? His solution would be cleaner than using two different toasts.

For example, (expanding on his/her answer) prior to onCreate we'd declare the toast:

private Toast myToast;

and in onCreate we'd have to initialize it using makeToast (otherwise we'd get an error):

myToast = Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), null, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);

and whenever we want a toast to be shown we'd simply call:

myToast.setText("some text");
myToast.show();

and this would replace the previous toast properly.

Answer 2

cancel() doesn't do anything I'm afraid.

I would suggest using Crouton https://github.com/keyboardsurfer/Crouton