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Accessibility actions overview

Accessibility actions overview - Android Tutorial

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Accessibility actions overview

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- [Instructor] We previously touched on accessibility actions. But we didn't really explain why we would want to use them. So let's take a deep dive into accessibility actions. Every view contains a certain set of actions that you can perform on them. For example, a button can be clicked, while a view pager can be scrolled, edit text can receive text, and a text view can have its' text copied. All of these actions need to be described to accessibility services, so people who are using them are also able to perform the same actions. Some of these actions are not easily accessible either. For example, it's not so simple via touch to copy and paste text, so we need to provide a list of actions that we can performed on our view's that will trigger the execution of the normal action, such as copying the text. Standard UI components already provides all these actions that can performed in a view. So, once again, you don't have to worry too much about this, unless you're creating your custom…

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