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Focus navigation

Focus navigation - Android Tutorial

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Focus navigation

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- [Narrator] A lot of developers don't know that on Android, you can navigate using focus navigation. That is, using a keyboard or a direction pad. Android TV or Chromebook specific applications requires that you provide focus navigation support in your app. Imagine using an Android application using a remote control. If you use applications on your Smart TV or console games such as Netflix, or Amazon video, you already know this type of interaction pretty well. But before diving into supporting focus navigation, let's first make sure we have a pretty clear distinction between focus navigation and accessibility focus. Focus navigation is similar to desktop keyboard navigation where you would use tab, arrows, enter, and the escape keys, or just as I mentioned, use a remote TV controller to navigate the screen. The focus is placed only on items that require user interaction, for example clickable views, or buttons, inputs like edit text, check box, switch etcetera. Now the focus for…

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