Published on March 22, 2017
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Alerts are pretty critical for communicating with your user. But it helps to know what is appropriate so that your users don’t hate you. Fortunately, there’s a simple answer: use a Snackbar! (
But, for those nuanced cases where you want to choose between a Toast and a Snackbar, the design docs have pretty much every detail you could need. ( And if you really like being wrong, there’s always a Dialog! (
But you’re better than that. So be a better developer and use the better choice: Snackbar.
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