Working with toasts

Another way to output text on the screen is using toasts. A toast is a simple message widget that can provide feedback about an operation in progress. It's a core Android widget, not an AndEngine component, but we can nevertheless use it in our game.

The easiest way to show a toast is to use a static method provided by the Toast class. In a general Android app, we can simply call this as follows:

Toast.makeText(activity, "Hello World", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

We can also call a toast inside the activity itself. This can be done as follows:

Toast.makeText(this, "Hello World", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

The makeText() method creates the Toast object. It takes three parameters: the context (activity), the text to show, and the length of the toast, which can be one of the following two types:

• Toast.LENGTH_LONG

• Toast.LENGTH_SHORT

Finally, we call the show() method on the newly created Toast object.

However, if we try to call this object inside the game, it won't work. This is...