Toast (with custom XML Layout) with variable display time

The native Android Toast has only two options for message duration (SHORT or LONG). Here we define a custom Toast, which uses a custom XML layout, and whose display duration is calculated to be proportional to the length of the Toast message (measured in number of characters).

• the custom XML Layout is inflated with a inflater service, and assigned to the basic toast "view" member
• a basic toast is displayed with the SHORT duration, but is actually shown multiple times in a countdown loop until the predefined display time has ended

class CustomToast {

    companion object {
        // NOTE: we must create a new custom toast for each tick
        public fun show(context: Context?, text: String)  {
            context?.runOnUiThread {
                val durationinMillisecondsPerCharacter: Long = 50
                val duration: Long = text.length * durationinMillisecondsPerCharacter
                val timer = object : CountDownTimer(duration, 1000) {
                    override fun onFinish() {
                        setCustomLayoutView(context, text)?.show()
                    }
                    override fun onTick(p0: Long) {
                        setCustomLayoutView(context, text)?.show()
                    }
                }
                timer.start()
            }
        }

        private fun setCustomLayoutView(context: Context, text: String) : Toast? {
            val toast = Toast(context)
            toast.setDuration(Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
            val inflater = context.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE) as LayoutInflater
            val view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.layout_custom_toast, null)
            view.findViewById<TextView>(R.id.custom_toast_text)?.let{
                it.setText(text)
            }
            toast.view = view
            return toast
        }
    }
}