Anyone managed to show an `AnnotatedString` in a `...

# compose-android

[Mark]

Anyone managed to show an AnnotatedString in a Toast message?

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

Like a legacy, view-based toast? First suggestion would be to use Snackbar in Material Compose instead

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

You could theoretically do this with a custom Toast view as well, but toasts with custom views have been deprecated in favor of snackbars in API 30.

[Joel Denke]

Can always use ComposeAbstractView inside Toast ;) Would create my custom snackbar host in compose. Can use in Scaffold or custom impl. And override Snackbar style going Toast look. Then can do whatever you want easy.

[Mark]

Yes, I tried the ComposeView approach but got a ViewTreeLifecycleOwner not found exception, and figured it wasn’t worth going down that route. So yeah I agree better to migrate away from Toast altogether at this point.

[Mark]

@Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD] I’m migrating a large app from View-based to Compose. There are about 30 places where Toasts are invoked. Almost always these are places in the code where the UI is not immediately available programmatically, but perhaps a Context is, and so it’s been a case of just using the Context or passing one down, rather than a more verbose system of event handling. These Toast messages are usually something very simple, like “no items” when realising a list is empty and so aborting some workflow. A more concrete use case where a Toast is preferable is while a Dialog is being shown, in which case the snackbar is shown behind and so, not only dimmed and clickable, but also sometimes obscured.

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

For the custom view issue, it’s not hard to wire up, but there might be edge cases with lifecycle/toast interactions that I might give you trouble. I’ve never tried. More info in this thread

[Mark]

What’s the preferred Compose way to show such messages while displaying a Compose Dialog?