How to hide or cancel Toast message in Android Programming

As you must know a toast message can last for only a SHORT and LONG duration, but if you want to hide a toast message. But what if an event causes the toast messages to pile up and get displayed one after the other causing a bad user experience, so in such a situation, it is better to cancel the pending messages queue, here is how we can do it,

Simple toast messages example that shows toast 10 times in a loop!

Toast myToast = null;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        for (int i=0;i<=10;i++) {
            myToast = Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "Toast message: "+i,Toast.LENGTH_LONG);
            myToast.show();
        }
}

How to cancel or hide Toast messages

Button cancelToastButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.cancelToastButton);
cancelToastButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

 if (myToast != null || myToast.getView().getWindowVisibility() == View.VISIBLE) {
   myToast.cancel();
 }

});

The above code when the button is pressed should cancel/hide/flush all pending toast messages that are getting displayed.

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