norsez / BDToastAlert

Non-obstructive alert message label (kind of like Growl or Toast in Android)

#BDToastAlert - Self-managed HUD-style alert text.

##Overview

BDToastAlert provides you an easy way to display non-obstructive messages to user without having to worry about its behavior and conflicts with other views.

##version 1.0.0

The first major version release. Version 1.0.0.

Since this is a major release, there is incompatibility with previous betas. :( Sorry, Early adopters. But this version API is simpler, and more importantly, now it looks great! See below.

##How to use Out of the box, all you need to do is first get the singleton like this:

BDToastAlert *toast = [BDToastAlert sharedInstance];

In order to display a message, call:

UIViewController *ctrl  = <a view contorller…>
[toast showToastWithText:@"Hello!" onViewController:ctrl];

That's it! You should see your text on the controller's view.

##Features

BDToastAlert works out of the box. However, you can customize it quite a bit if you like with these properties

• verticalAlignment defines where the toast should appear on the specified view.
• customToastViewClassName defines the class name of your own custom toast view.

###Customizing Toast

Two ways:

####Customize by Subclassing (Recommended) Though you can start from scratch with a custom UIView for a custom toast view, I recommend subclassing the BDDefaultToastView class. This is the default view that BDToastAlert uses out of the box.

An example for customizing toast view by subclassing BDDefaultToastView.

To change the toast font, override the -init method, like this

- (id)init
{
    self = [super init];
    if (self) {
        self.textLabel.font = <your font>;
    }
    return self;
}

If you guess that the textLabel property is the UILabel on the BDDefaultToastView class, then you are correct. You can configure the label any way you like. For the background gradient, the following methods: configure how it looks

• startGradientColor
• endGradientColor
• shadowColor
• backgroundRadius

####Customize by Starting from Scratch You can subclass a UIView for your custom toast with the following requirements:

1. The view must conform to the BDToastViewProtocol
2. The designated initializer (i.e. all your init code must be in) is the -init method. This is because
3. In order to use it with BDToastAlert, set the class name to its customToastViewClassName property. The BDToastAlert singleton creates an instance of your custom toast view using -init method only.

##Requirements

• Requires ARC
• QuartzCore.framework

##How to use

• With CocoaPods, add to your dependency list.

  dependency 'BDToastAlert'

• Without CocoaPods, just include h/.m files in BDToastAlert folder to your project source code

• See the sample project. There's really not much to it.

##Apps using BDToastAlert

• Photosophia iOS for Flickr Groups (Shameless plug :)
• Please let me know of your apps so I can extend this list. Thanks!

##License BDToastAlert is licensed under BSD. More info in LICENSE file.