Turn Toast on / off from shared preferences?

Question

Is there a way to globally turn on and off toast notifications with a checkbox in shared preferences?

PreferenceManager.setDefaultValues(this, R.xml.preferences, false);
        boolean showToast = myPrefs.getBoolean("showToast",
                true);

I was thinking maybe making a class:

boolean showToast(){
 //code
}

BUT thought, SO might have a global solution?

Should I use a different type of notification system?

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

You may consider extending Toast to create your custom class which is smart enough to read the user preferences before showing the toast.

Then refactor your code to replace Toast with SmartToast.

SmartToast.makeText(this, "message", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

So implement SmartToast.makeText() to return an instance of SmartToast and override show() as follows:

@Override
public void show() {
    if (PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(context).getBoolean("showToast", true)) {
        super.show();
    }
}