Question

I want to display a toast message in a static class but the is an issue of Toast message parameter passing context of application. Pleas help me, how to display the toast message in static class. Please recommend me the change that I have need to do, I will be very thankful to you. Here is a portion of my code.

    public class MainActivity extends Activity {
         public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
                super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
                setContentView(R.layout.training_four_position);
            mEndlessRunnable = (Runnable) new UpdateRunnable();
            mEndlessRunnable.run();
    }


   private static class UpdateRunnable implements Runnable  {
   private int mState; 

   public UpdateRunnable(Handler handler, Button[] buttons) {
         mHandler = handler;
         mButtons = buttons;
   }

    public void run() {
        switch (mState) {
        case 0:
               mState = 1;
               break;
        case 1:

            mState = 0;
               // Here is the issue in my toast message
               Toast.makeText(CONTEXT, "Toast message.",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                break;
     }

  mHandler.postDelayed(this,1000)); 

  }// End of run()
  }//End of class UpdateRunnable
  } //End of MainActivity

Answer 1

you can try to make a separate method for your toast

public void showToast(String message){

    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), message, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

}//end showToast

and then call that in your inner class.