Question

I am attempting to display a toast message before the activity pauses by overriding onPause method with this code:

@Override
protected void onPause() {
    Toast.makeText(this, "Paused", Toast.LENGTH_LONG);
    super.onPause();
}

according to this http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#ActivityLifecycle
activity will not be paused until this method is returned:

"Implementations of this method must be very quick because the next activity will not be resumed until this method returns."

However toast message is not displayed at all.

Answer 1

Change:
Toast.makeText(this, "Paused", Toast.LENGTH_LONG)

to:

Toast.makeText(this, "Paused", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show()