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Implementing Toasts in Ionic 2 With ToastController

Published on November 15, 2016
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    Implementing Toasts in Ionic 2 With ToastController

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    Toasts are short messages that appear usually near the bottom of the screen for a brief moment. They are mostly used for quick notifications in mobile apps. Ionic 2 makes it easy to implement toasts in your apps:

    import { ToastController } from 'ionic-angular';
    

    Then you inject ToastController in your component’s class constructor:

    constructor(public toastCtrl: ToastController) {}
    

    And now let’s create a 2-second toast in a favoriteRecipe() method that indicates to the user that the recipe was added to their favorites:

    favoriteRecipe() {
      this.favorite = true;
      let toast = this.toastCtrl.create({
        message: `Added to your favorites!`,
        duration: 2000
      });
      toast.present();
    }
    

    The present() method on the toast will display it. dismiss() can also be called on toasts to close them.

    Toast Controller options

    On top of message and duration, here are a few more options that you can set on toasts:

    • position: A string indicating the placement for the toast, can be top, middle or bottom. Bottom is the default.
    • cssClass: A string with classes to apply to the toast.
    • closeButtonText: Defaults to ‘Close’.
    • dismissOnPageChange: Defaults to false.
    • showCloseButton: Defaults to false.

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