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What is iToast

This page tells you what toast notifications are and why you may need them in your iPhone/iPad application.

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If you develop already for Android, then you know what it is so you can skip to the next section.

For the others of us: a toast is a spécial way to display 'non intrusive' message to the user. Those message are displayed on a configurable place on the screen and they disapear after a configurable time interval. The way they appear is similar to the way the Growl app (on mac do).

Difference between iToast and Toast on Android =

• The iToasts disapear when tapped by the user even if the configured time is not elapsed.
• iToasts can have an image-icon attached to them (info, warning, error).
• There is application wide configuration object that you can use so that all your iToast looks the same.
• We are planning to add a plug-in based system so that we can offer many look'n feel for the toasts instead of the default.
• iToast advertise the chaining of call so that you can create any toast with any configuration in on instruction.

Benefits of using Toast =

Some benefits are:

• The user is not distracted by such alert and just notice them: he don't need to click "Ok". As a rule of thumb we use iToast now everywhere we would have put a UIAlertView with only a single Button.
• You can add it anywhere on the screen depending of the importance of the iToast. We display them with a gravity of Top when it is of medium importance, Center when it is Very importan an Bottom when it is of low importance.

Not yet implemented

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• Plugin based interface to customize the toasts.