Android toast not showing inside onDestroy of Activity

Question

My requirement is when user swipes(destroys) my application from Recent tab, I want to show a toast. For this I tried showing the toast in onDestroy of the MainActivity, But the toast does not show up. I am using the following code :

Toast.makeText(this, "Toast", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

Can you help what could be the reason?

You should post the code else this would be just a guess work. Well, my guess: Put the toast before **super.onDestroy()** — NezSpencer, May 18 '16 at 09:41
I used to show toast before super.onDestroy.. But no help. There is not much code here.. I just show a toast on onDestroy of activity. Scenario is : When my application is running, some background service is started and the work is being done. Now when my application is destroyed from recents page, I kill my process in onDestroy of MainActivity. Now before killing my process, I want to show a toast to user say like "service is stopped" — Rock, May 18 '16 at 11:31

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 18 '16 at 10:21

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The context becomes null so the Toast does not appear. You may put a log to see whether the code is executed on that line or not.

answered May 18 '16 at 10:21

Atahar Hossain

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I already added a log. and the above line of code is executed – Rock May 18 '16 at 11:06
It is difficult to show Toast while the app destroys from the background. Can you please share what you want to do ? – Atahar Hossain May 18 '16 at 11:18
When my application is running, some background service is started and the work is being done. Now when my application is destroyed from recents page, I kill my process in onDestroy of MainActivity. Now before killing my process, I want to show a toast to user say like "service is stopped" – Rock May 18 '16 at 11:22
Just override the "onTaskRemoved" from Service classs which is called when the service is running and the user remove it from the backgroud. Now put the toast inside "onTaskRemoved" like - Toast.makeText(this, "Your Message", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show(); – Atahar Hossain May 19 '16 at 04:45

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 31 '19 at 16:36

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you can write this code and see logcat

 @Override
protected void onDestroy() {
    super.onDestroy();
    Log.i("OnDestroy", "onDestroy: OnDestroy called");
}

answered Jul 31 '19 at 16:36

Romil Jain

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 08 '20 at 11:34

Toast only shows up in onDestroy(), when you have called super.onBackPressed() either in onBackPressed() or in the beginning of onDestroy(). For example:

@Override
public void onBackPressed() {
    moveTaskToBack(false);
}

@Override
protected void onDestroy() {
    super.onBackPressed();
    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "You're offline!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); 
    super.onDestroy();
}

Android toast not showing inside onDestroy of Activity

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