Displaying error messages with Android and MonoDroid
One of the most annoying things when I build a desktop app in .NET is MessageBox.Show() for displaying images or using a alert() in Javascript is that I have to click on the popup dialog to make it go away. I love the little messages at the bottom of an Android screen that come up, display some text, and then go away. Its a Toast. Here's a simple call to make one display.
Toast.MakeText(this, "some info goes here", ToastLength.Short).Show();
In my case, I wanted to report an error, so I did this:
catch (System.Exception e)
{
// log the error to the android logs.
Android.Util.Log.D("MEDIA_PLAYER", e.Message);
Toast.MakeText(this, e.Message, ToastLength.Short).Show();
}