Scenario:
An iOS app has a list of cars
User clicks a car in the list and an "edit car" page is displayed
User modifies data and clicks OK and is returned to the list
At this point we would like to display a transient informational message to the use. A message that disappear after a few seconds.
What is the iOS way of showing transient messages like you would in Android toast?
There is no native ios support for something like toast that I am aware of. According to ios Human Interface guidelines the standard convention for addressing temporary messages would be to use the UI Alert. The guidelines go on to suggest the following:
If the alert does this... Informs users of problems they can do nothing about: If the problem isn’t critical, integrate the information into the app’s UI; otherwise, use an alert.
It's my understanding that a UI Alert could be displayed using a pop animation and be automatically dismissed via timeout, to achieve something like toast.
If you require something that looks and behaves a bit more like toast there are a myriad of custom controls you can integrate to achieve the same effect on ios. Here is one for example:
The top message slider that slides down from the top of the screen. On my iPhone6 I see it both with the controls and just with the info (texts, im messages etc). It slides back up in a few seconds unless reacted to.
