Anoying Toast due to temporarily unavailible Spaceapi

[NiciDieNase]

My Hackerspace (Entropia) is currently moving, due to the the Spaceapi is currently not availible.
This causes the widget to create Toasts with "No Route to host" when I'm in the middle of doing other things, and it was not easy to even find out which app is responsible for that.

This is propably an edge case, but nevertheless very annoying to my.

I don't think it's a good idea to use toasts for errors from a widget, especially if there is no context for the message. A Toast with just "No route to Host" when I'm on my homescreen does not give me any Information I would need to anything about the cause (and it gets really annoying after a few times).

I'm not sure what the best way to fix this is. Maybe creating a Notification, to at least give context for the Message and maybe more information and time.
But it might get just as anoying in a case like mine to get Notifications every few minutes, but at least the can disable notifications on a per app basis in current Android versions.

Any suggestions?

[rorist]

Hi,

Sorry for the annoyance, we can surely do better. Maybe give some context like you said.

I'm not sure about your notification solution, is the android support library a problem when one want to install the applicatino from f-droid ? Apparently they can build using this library, but I'd have to take a deeper look. I really want MyHs to be available outside of the play store.

Thanks a lot for the feedback and proposition.
Cheers

[dbrgn]

I'm not sure if getting spammed with notifications is better than getting spammed with toasts. At least the toasts are gone quickly, while the notification needs to be swiped away.

We could add a "disable these notifications" action to the notification, but that seems a bit overengineered to me. Why not temporarily remove the widget?