Why Toast.maketoast is not working in the BroadcastReceiver class

Question

I am getting the Error message while i am trying to call the Toast.makeText function inside the onReceive function of the BroadcastReceiver type class. This is not a duplicate of another Question because i am calling the show() method and this is compile time issue Error is : cannot resolve method makeText.

The same function working fine if i am calling it inside any other Activity Type Class.

Here is my code that i am trying to run .

import android.content.BroadcastReceiver;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.widget.Toast;
public class CallStateReceiver  extends BroadcastReceiver{
    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
        Toast.makeText(this,"test", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }
}

Possible duplicate of [Toast message from Broadcast Receiver](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7900976/toast-message-from-broadcast-receiver) — greenmarker, Aug 06 '16 at 09:37

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 06 '16 at 09:22

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I guess its having trouble with the context. Change it to:

Toast.makeText(context, "test", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

answered Aug 06 '16 at 09:22

Shaishav

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 06 '16 at 09:22

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Pass Context from BroadcastReceiver class to Toast.change your toast onReceive method like below

@Override
 public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {

  Toast.makeText(context,"test", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
 }

answered Aug 06 '16 at 09:22

sasikumar

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 06 '16 at 09:23

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Change this

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

to this

Toast.makeText(context,"test", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

and try

answered Aug 06 '16 at 09:23

Rosemol J

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Why Toast.maketoast is not working in the BroadcastReceiver class

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