Today I am sharing my experience about how I made my first Android Library TastyToast . (For all those who are unaware about it just have a quick look at it here).

Meanwhile, just grab a mug of Espresso or a big bucket of Popcorn and make yourself comfortable.

So let's rotate our clock in anticlockwise direction and hop over to the month of July. Though the registration for academic session was beginning from 15 but I had to come Roorkee on 12 (after enjoying two month long Summer vacations at home) because of some academic stuff. I had no idea about my stay in those three days but thanks to Raghav sir for doing all prior engagements in advance.

Having heard a lot about the time taken by Governmental procedure for getting some work done, I made a rough estimate of three days at extreme to get my work done but my joy had no bounds when I saw it getting completed in just six hours. So What's next! I had two complete vacant days with no burden of those adamantine questions from those really annoying tutorials. So I took out my paper and pen and made a schedule of how to spend upcoming 48 hours of my life.

First day went quite well. I married my Dell's fifth generation portable machine and went imperceptible for that day. On second day while I was just goofing around Hacker News, I came across various Android libraries whose purpose in life was to customize the default android widgets. Having a colossal interest in Android, I went through few of them and got some fragmented knowledge of Android Libraries and how to make them.

Feeling famish after skipping breakfast, I hurried to mess for grasping lunch. While I was swallowing not so luscious Bhindi masala with couple of unmannerly cooked Chapati, I saw the guy sitting next to me who was downloading some music files from his htc gadget. Being a keen observer, I noticed that irrespective of whether downloading gets failed or succeed, same kind of Toast was appearing every-time. I felt quite odd about the way Android deals with the context of Toasts (though I had used same Toast innumerable number of time while developing! ). That was the very moment when I decided to customise default Android Toasts. I left my lunch unfinished and rushed to my room where my virtual portable wife was waiting for me to wake her up from sleep mode. By the end of day, I learned about the way Toast work in Android and was able to customise native Toast's background and text color.

Next day i.e. 15, was the day of registration for next Academic session. After getting rid of all formalities, I started working on TastyToast ( meanwhile I forgot to mention about the name TastyToast, I named it as just because of the fact that I got this idea while I was eating in mess! ). After making a simple demo app, I went to my friend's room ( harshit : who is also a contributor in it ) and discussed my work with him.

Harshit ( who is a typical astute guy ) showed me that their are already bunch of repositories on Github who are born to customise color of Toast and nothing else. I was sad seeing the fact that someone had already implemented an idea which was ( being an Android Developer ) was unknown to me couple of days before. I was feeling very fagged after this. After having a cordial sleep for couple of hours, I woke up and searched almost all repositories available on Github related to Toast. After spending four long hours, I got an idea of what people had done previously. I also made my decision regarding what to be done in TastyToast.

Next was 16 (Saturday), so I had whole day to work upon my idea. I had decided to show some custom view (depending on the context of toast) on left side and the toast message on the right side of Toast. I made a new Project and started working on the first type i.e. successToast. I made my first commit on 17 (Sunday) and completed it by 21.

I made my repo public on 22 and got great ovation from other members of Mobile Development Group ( I forgot to mention that I am an active member of this group for the past one year), I felt more energetic after that and had decided to complete other four types within one weak.

I managed to complete my app by 28. It was 29 when I finally converted my work to an Android library so that instead of writing some big chunk of code, any geek around the world can use it by just writing one include statement.

Next major task which was lying in front of me was to let the world know that their is something called TastyToast. I didn't felt much strain in that part because of some nimble peoples like Akshay, Abhishek and Karan sir, who not only helped me throughout but also informed me about the repositories like awesome-android.

After all it was wonderful experience for me and learned a lot throughout this process.

P.S: The reason for which I wrote this blog today is because of the face that today only TastyToast has crossed the 1000 stars benchmark.