Android Snackbar

Snackbar in android is a new widget introduced with the Material Design library as a replacement of a Toast.

Android Snackbar is light-weight widget and they are used to show messages in the bottom of the application with swiping enabled. Snackbar android widget may contain an optional action button.

Difference between Toast and Snackbar

A Toast messages can be customised and printed anywhere on the screen, but a Snackbar can be only showed in the bottom of the screen

A Toast message don’t have action button, but Snackbar may have action button optionally. Though, A Snackbar shouldn’t have more than one action button

Toast message cannot be off until the time limit finish, but Snackbar can be swiped off before the time limit

Note: Toast message and Snackbar have display length property in common.

A code snippet to display a basic android Snackbar is shown below.

Snackbar snackbar = Snackbar

        .make(coordinatorLayout, "www.androidcodeblock.com", Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG);

snackbar.show();