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Create unique labels

Create unique labels - Android Tutorial

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Create unique labels

- [Instructor] In our example app, let's inspect one case where we could add unique and meaningful labels to buttons. With TalkBack enabled, open our Cards example. - [TalkBack] Cards button. Cards. - [Instructor] Note that the image buttons are currently unlabeled. - [TalkBack] Unlabeled button in list three items. Unlabeled button, unlabeled button, unlabeled button, unlabeled button. Double-tap. - [Instructor] This is really bad. It's a critical problem and you must make sure that you don't have these problems in your app. Also, because we have multiple cards and multiple image buttons, it would not be good to fix this issue by just adding the same content description to all of them. So let's go back to Android Studio and fix these problems. First, let's open the main folder, resources folder, layout folder and open the card_list_item. This is where we declare all the image buttons and as you can see, there is a warning that Android Studio is telling us that this image button is…

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