How to show Snackbar at top of the screen

Question

As the Android documentation says

Snackbars provide lightweight feedback about an operation. They show a brief message at the bottom of the screen on mobile and lower left on larger devices.

Is there any alternative by which we can show snackbars at top of the screen instead of the bottom?

Right now I am doing something like this which shows a snackbar at the bottom of the screen.

Snackbar.make(findViewById(android.R.id.content), "Hello this is a snackbar!!!", 
Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG).setAction("Undo", mOnClickListener)
.setActionTextColor(Color.RED)
.show();

Answer 1

It is possible to make the snackbar appear on top of the screen using this:

Snackbar snack = Snackbar.make(parentLayout, str, Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG);
View view = snack.getView();
FrameLayout.LayoutParams params =(FrameLayout.LayoutParams)view.getLayoutParams();
params.gravity = Gravity.TOP;
view.setLayoutParams(params);
snack.show();

From the OP:

I had to change the first line:

Snackbar snack = Snackbar.make(findViewById(android.R.id.content), "Had a snack at Snackbar", Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG);

Answer 2

CoordinatorLayout coordinatorLayout=(CoordinatorLayout)findViewById(R.id.coordinatorLayout);
Snackbar snackbar = Snackbar.make(coordinatorLayout, "Text", Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG);
View view = snackbar.getView();
CoordinatorLayout.LayoutParams params=(CoordinatorLayout.LayoutParams)view.getLayoutParams();
params.gravity = Gravity.TOP;
view.setLayoutParams(params);
snackbar.show();

Answer 3

Combined solution from the above ones:

final ViewGroup.LayoutParams params = snackbar.getView().getLayoutParams();
if (params instanceof CoordinatorLayout.LayoutParams) {
    ((CoordinatorLayout.LayoutParams) params).gravity = Gravity.TOP;
} else {
    ((FrameLayout.LayoutParams) params).gravity = Gravity.TOP;
}
snackbar.getView().setLayoutParams(params);

Still suffers from the improper animation.

Answer 4

2 years later, here's my solution..

Setting the Top and Bottom Margin changes the effect result,... I have tried to add as much customization options as i could, Overriding the animation is another option not written here.

Thanks to everyone's answers on several questions...

{
    // usage for setSnackBar
    int view = R.id.toolbar;
    String snackMessage = "";
    boolean useAction = false;
    Runnable ifUseActionRunnable = null;
    String actionText = "";
    int leftMargin = 0;
    int topMargin = 0;
    int rightMargin = 0;
    int bottomMargin = 0;
    int backgroundColour = Color.BLACK;
    int textColor = Color.WHITE;
    int duration = Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG;
    setSnackBar(view, snackMessage, useAction, ifUseActionRunnable, actionText, leftMargin, topMargin, rightMargin, bottomMargin, backgroundColour, textColor, duration);

}

Snackbar snb;
public void setSnackBar(int targetView, String snackMessage, boolean useAction, final Runnable ifUseActionRunnable, String actionText , int leftMargin, int topMargin, int rightMargin, int bottomMargin, int backgroundColour, int textColor, int duration)
{
    snb = Snackbar.make(findViewById(targetView), snackMessage, duration);
    View view = snb.getView();
    view.setBackgroundColor(backgroundColour);
    snb.setActionTextColor(textColor);
    FrameLayout.LayoutParams params =(FrameLayout.LayoutParams)view.getLayoutParams();
    params.gravity =  Gravity.CENTER_HORIZONTAL | Gravity.TOP;
    params.setMargins(leftMargin, topMargin, rightMargin, bottomMargin);
    view.setLayoutParams(params);
    if (useAction)
    {
        snb.setAction(actionText, new View.OnClickListener(){
                @Override
                public void onClick(View p1)
                {
                    ifUseActionRunnable.run();

                }
            });
    }
    if (snb.isShown())
    {
        snb.dismiss();
        snb.show();
    }
    else
    {
        snb.show();
    }
}