How to keep the snackbar open after action is called

Question

I use a snackbar to notify the users of my app that they aren't connected to the internet. I added a "retry" action to the snackbar which re-checks the connection. I want the snackbar to stay displayed until I dismiss it myself (when an internet connection is found), but I can't get this to work. Whenever I click on the action, the snackbar dismisses.

I've set the duration to indefinite and the snackbar does stay open indefinitely but it dismisses when I click on the action.

I've read online that dismissing the snackbar automatically after clicking on the action hasn't always been the default behavior.

edit:

I feel like my question might be badly phrased. I have a snackbar with an action but I don't want the snackbar to close when the action is executed, which it automatically does atm.

Why not just create a new snackbar when the user taps "retry"? IMHO it might even be good to wait a second before displaying the new snackbar as visual feedback telling the user that "yes, I retried, but there's still no internet connection". (That's not to say that there's no way of doing what you want) — tjollans, May 14 '16 at 18:54
So do you want to show snake bar until user manually dismiss it. right? — Krupal Shah, May 14 '16 at 18:59
Well, the user can dismiss it by swiping, which I don't have a problem with. I just don't want it to close automatically when they click on the action — DeryckeS, May 14 '16 at 19:01
There already is visual feedback when checking for a connection, but I suppose I'll end up using a new snackbar like you suggested. I just can't imagine why it wouldn't be easy to just NOT close the snackbar. Like I said, this even used to be the default behavior. — DeryckeS, May 14 '16 at 20:04

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 29 '16 at 09:27

You can override the OnClickListener set for the button. First make the snackbar with and set the action with some dummy listener

Snackbar snackbar = Snackbar.make(view,"TXT",Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG).setAction("OK", new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) { }
    });

And then find the button and set your listner

snackbar.show();
ViewGroup group = (ViewGroup) snackbar.getView();
for(int i=0; i< group.getChildCount();i++){
        View v = group.getChildAt(i);
        if(v instanceof Button){
            v.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                    YOUR_ACTION();
                }
            });
        }
 }

To add to this, instead of iterating over the ViewGroup you can just use `findViewById`. i.e. `Button actionButton = (Button) snackbar.getView().findViewById(android.support.design.R.id.snackbar_action);` — RocketSpock, Dec 02 '16 at 16:45

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 13 '18 at 14:38

You can try this

final Snackbar snackbar = Snackbar.make("your view".getRootView(), "Annotations", Snackbar.LENGTH_INDEFINITE);
    snackbar.setAction("your action", new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            // do something
            new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {
                @Override
                public void run() {
                    snackbar.show();
                }
            }, 1);
        }
    });
    snackbar.show();

After the action is clicked, snackbar will close automatically but with some delay, so if you call snackbar.show(); directly in the OnClickListener, the snack bar will not show. Therefore, to make it show always, give it some delay before showing it. (surprisingly, a one millisecond delay is enough)

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 20 '19 at 12:07

You can do the following:

snack = Snackbar.make(binding.root, "Your text", Snackbar.LENGTH_INDEFINITE)
            .setAction("Button Text") {
                // do something here 
                it.postDelayed({
                    snack.show()
                }, 1000) // Snackbar reappears after 1 second
            }

How to keep the snackbar open after action is called

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