I am doing something like when a service get started, a custom toast notification shows up.
The custom toast view is defined in a xml file, the problem is that
check this post
http://www.cloud208.com/blogica/Android+Custom+Toast+from+a+Service
According to that post, you can use an inflater with null
as the second argument:
LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) getSystemService(LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
View layout = inflater.inflate(R.layout.toast_layout, null);