Is it a good practice to wrap all layouts in CoordinatorLayout?

Question

I'm thinking of a way to implement Android Snackbars in my app. Basically, I want to be able to show Snackbar from anywhere in the app.

As I found out, android.support.design.widget.Snackbar performs the best when put in android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout. Otherwise, I cannot swipe it away, it shows over navigation drawer and doesn't interact with Floating Action Button.

So the question is: Is it a good practice to wrap ALL my layouts in CoordinatorLayout, get the reference for it in a BaseActivity, so that it can be passed to Snackbar from almost anywhere?

That seems to be a solid way to ensure the Snackbar and other layout components behave correctly, but... well, means touching all layouts and having one BaseActivity which is extended by all other Activities and which would be accessed from any Fragment wanting to show a Snackbar.

Is there a better way?

Answer 1

I have implemented same like open Snackbar from anywhere in application.

I have created one common method and just pass context and string message i need to display and no need to pass any view. Check out my code snippet.

 public static void showSnackBar(Activity context, String msg) {    Snackbar.make(context.getWindow().getDecorView().findViewById(android.R.id.content), msg, Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG).show();  } 

Using this, You will have your Snackbar on bottom every time.