Custom Snackbar

Snackbar with custom attributes

done for solving the Stackoverflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31492351/how-can-you-adjust-android-snackbar-to-a-specific-position-on-screen

Using the library material.io

implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.3.0'

The purpose of this customization, is to provide more control under the Snackbar, this includes:

• background color,
• card size
• rounding value in the corners
• possibility of adding icons
• and, mainly, controlling its position on the screen.

Focused for use on tablets

The main part of the code is this:

private void showSnackbar() {

    LayoutInflater mInflater = LayoutInflater.from(this);

    View rootView = findViewById(android.R.id.content);
    Snackbar snackBar = Snackbar.make(rootView, "Olá Mundo", Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG);

    // Get the Snackbar's layout view
    Snackbar.SnackbarLayout layout = (Snackbar.SnackbarLayout) snackBar.getView();

    LinearLayout.LayoutParams lp = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(
            LinearLayout.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT,
            LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT
    );

    layout.setLayoutParams(lp);

    layout.setPadding(0, 0, 0, 0);

    snackBar.getView().setBackground(ContextCompat.getDrawable(this, R.drawable.bg_snackbar));

    // Hide the text
    TextView textView = (TextView) layout.findViewById(com.google.android.material.R.id.snackbar_text);
    textView.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);

    // Inflate our custom view
    View snackView = mInflater.inflate(R.layout.my_snackbar, null);
    layout.addView(snackView);

    snackBar.show();
}