Toast-Swift
A customizable iOS 14 style Toast view built with UIKit for Swift applications.
What is Toast-Swift?
Toast-Swift is a UIKit-based library for displaying toast notifications in iOS applications. It provides a flexible and customizable way to show transient messages to users, mimicking the modern iOS 14 style while offering extensive configuration options for layout, animation, and behavior.
iOS developers using UIKit who need to implement toast notifications in their apps, particularly those seeking a native-looking component with deep customization capabilities.
Developers choose Toast-Swift for its balance of Apple-inspired aesthetics and high flexibility, including support for custom views, animations, queues, and delegate hooks, all while maintaining ease of use through a simple API.
Overview
Customizable Swift Toast view built with UIKit. 🍞
Use Cases
Best For
- Displaying transient user notifications in iOS apps with a native iOS 14 style
- Implementing customizable toast animations like slide, fade, scale, or custom animations
- Creating toast queues to show multiple notifications sequentially without overlap
- Adding haptic feedback to toast notifications for enhanced user experience
- Building custom toast views that deviate from the default Apple style while using the same library infrastructure
- Attaching toast notifications to specific views within an app's interface for contextual display
Not Ideal For
- SwiftUI-only projects without UIKit integration layers
- Cross-platform apps needing notifications on Android or web
- Applications requiring highly interactive toasts with embedded buttons or complex user inputs
- Projects with strict performance budgets in animation-heavy interfaces
Pros & Cons
Pros
Offers detailed control over layout, animations (slide, fade, scale, custom), and dismissal methods (time, swipe, long press), as shown in the configurable ToastConfiguration.
Mimics the modern iOS 14 style with clean, Apple-inspired designs, ensuring seamless integration in UIKit-based apps.
Includes ToastQueue class for sequential display of multiple toasts, preventing overlap and managing notification flows effectively.
Easily adds tactile responses using UINotificationFeedbackGenerator, with haptic types like success available in the show method parameters.
Cons
Built solely for UIKit, requiring additional work like UIViewRepresentable for SwiftUI projects, which can complicate modern app development.
The README doesn't mention accessibility features such as VoiceOver support, potentially leaving gaps for apps needing compliance with iOS accessibility standards.
Creating fully custom toast views requires implementing the ToastView protocol, adding development overhead compared to simpler, drop-in libraries.
Frequently Asked Questions
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