Add custom Popup Message duration and position setting

[Tyler2213]

So that it is possible to get a toast message for a long time and place it anywhere instead of the default options, add Custom to Duration and Position for the Popup Message action.

 

[FrameXX]

You can always use UiTask which has way more settings for toast message. But exact duration is also not here. Just short and long duration. I suspect that toast duration is managed by android and apps can only specify long or short duration, but maybe I am lying here. I am not sure.

 

[MacroDroidDev]

Toast durations are fixed, but a neat trick is if you want it to appear longer then you can just call it multiple times and it should remain on screen longer (without dissapearing and re-appearing). For example if you add it in a loop that runs 10 times, it will appear for 10 times as long.

 

[any name you wish]

Is there some way to enable a toast to immediately replace a currently displaying toast? It used to happen for me but for a while now it's been waiting for one to end before the next displays, which is reasonable default behaviour but worse for my use case.

 

[MacroDroidDev]

There will be an option in the next release (May) to overwrite the previous toast message, allowing for shorter toasts for second based countdowns etc.

 

[FrameXX]

There will be an option in the next release (May) to overwrite the previous toast message, allowing for shorter toasts for second based countdowns etc.

I presume this will only work for MacroDroid custom toast messages?

 

[MacroDroidDev]

It will work for both standard and custom options.

 

[sneike]

Toast durations are fixed, but a neat trick is if you want it to appear longer then you can just call it multiple times and it should remain on screen longer (without dissapearing and re-appearing). For example if you add it in a loop that runs 10 times, it will appear for 10 times as long.

I tried the loop trick, it works even though you can see the pop-up disappearing and reappearing. You say it works without doing that, is there something I'm missing? Maybe it depends by the android version or vendor UI?

I use a custom toast with long duration in a loop of 3 repetitions.

edit: actually, the loop only seems to work if MacroDroid is open in the foreground. If I run the macro with the app closed the toast only appears once.

Thanks