How to Customize Snack Bar in Android

Every Android Developer knows about the Snackbar, which is an important component introduced in Material Design. It is similar to Toast used for android Development. But the Snackbar had provides action callback to perform action like Click-listeners in Button. In this article, we are going to learn How to Customize the Snackbar.

Summary

We are going learn,

1. Implementation of Default Snackbar
2. Implementation of Snackbar with action callback
3. Snackbar with custom gravity for message text
4. Snackbar with custom color
5. Snackbar with custom text color for message and action.
6. Snackbar with custom typeface for message text and action text.
7. Implementation of Top Snackbar

Implementation of Default Snackbar

Below is the syntax of a simple Snackbar. The make function accepts three parameters. View, display message and duration of the message to be displayed.

Snackbar.make(v, "Normal Snackbar", Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG).show();

Implementation of Snackbar with action callback

Below is the syntax to display snackbar with action callback

Snackbar.make(v, "Snackbar with Action", Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG)
.setAction("UNDO", new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View view) {
               Snackbar.make(view, "Action!", Snackbar.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
}).setActionTextColor(Color.RED).show();

Snackbar with custom gravity for message text

Below is the syntax to display snackbar with custom gravity

Snackbar mSnackBar = Snackbar.make(v, "Snackbar with Custom Gravity", Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG);
TextView mainTextView = (TextView) (mSnackBar.getView()).findViewById(android.support.design.R.id.snackbar_text);
 if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN_MR1)
    mainTextView.setTextAlignment(View.TEXT_ALIGNMENT_CENTER);
 else
    mainTextView.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_HORIZONTAL);
mainTextView.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_HORIZONTAL);
mSnackBar.show();

Snackbar with custom color

Below is the syntax to display snackbar with custom color

Snackbar mSnackBar = Snackbar.make(v, "Custom Snackbar", Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG);
// To Change Snackbar Color
mSnackBar.getView().setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE);
mSnackBar.show();

Snackbar with custom text color for message and action

Below is the syntax to display snackbar with custom text color

Snackbar mSnackBar = Snackbar.make(v, "Custom Snackbar", Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG);
TextView mainTextView = (TextView) (mSnackBar.getView()).findViewById(android.support.design.R.id.snackbar_text);
TextView actionTextView = (TextView) (mSnackBar.getView()).findViewById(android.support.design.R.id.snackbar_action);
// To Change Text Color for Message and Action
mainTextView.setTextColor(Color.BLACK);
actionTextView.setTextColor(Color.BLACK);
mSnackBar.show();

Snackbar with custom typeface for message text and action text

Below is the syntax to display snackbar with custom Typeface

Snackbar mSnackBar = Snackbar.make(v, "Custom Snackbar", Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG);
TextView mainTextView = (TextView) (mSnackBar.getView()).findViewById(android.support.design.R.id.snackbar_text);
TextView actionTextView = (TextView) (mSnackBar.getView()).findViewById(android.support.design.R.id.snackbar_action);
// To Apply Custom Fonts for Message and Action
Typeface font = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "Lato-Regular.ttf");
mainTextView.setTypeface(font);
actionTextView.setTypeface(font);
mSnackBar.show();

Implementation of Top Snackbar

Below is the syntax to display snackbar from screen Top

 Snackbar mSnackBar = Snackbar.make(v, "TOP SNACKBAR", Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG);
View view = mSnackBar.getView();
FrameLayout.LayoutParams params =(FrameLayout.LayoutParams)view.getLayoutParams();
params.gravity = Gravity.TOP;
view.setLayoutParams(params);
view.setBackgroundColor(Color.RED);
TextView mainTextView = (TextView) (view).findViewById(android.support.design.R.id.snackbar_text);
mainTextView.setTextColor(Color.WHITE);
mSnackBar.show();

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