How can I show a toast for a specific duration?

Question

This is the way I have to show the Toast for 500 milliseconds. Though, it\'s showing more than a second.

Toast.makeText(LiveChat.this, \"Typing\         


        

Answer 1

Can't do what you are asking with the standard Toasts. Perhaps you should think about integrating a 3rd party library that gives you better Toast options (named Crouton). I haven't used it myself, but people seem to like it.

You can't control the length of Toasts in the standard OS.

Crouton link: https://github.com/keyboardsurfer/Crouton