How do you display a Toast from a background thread on Android?

Question

How can I display Toast messages from a thread?

Answer 1

Like this or this, with a Runnable that shows the Toast. Namely,

Activity activity = // reference to an Activity
// or
View view = // reference to a View

activity.runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        showToast(activity);
    }
});
// or
view.post(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        showToast(view.getContext());
    }
});

private void showToast(Context ctx) {
    Toast.makeText(ctx, "Hi!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}