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Grouping content - Android Tutorial

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Grouping content

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- [Instructor] There are times that our layout is composed of many different components, such as text views, images, image buttons, and so on. But visually, we group them into digestible parts. For example, in card-like layouts or list layouts, each item could be composed of many different smaller views. Now if you are a screen reader user, you may have a very poor user experience because of the amount of items you will have to focus. Grouping all views into a single accessibility focus will lead to a much better user experience. The screen reader user will be consuming the content just like we visually consume, grouped by items, so our goal here is to provide a similar experience by combining natural groupings in our view. In our sample app with TalkBack enabled, let's go to the cards example. - [App] Cards button. Cards. - Let's go ahead and select one of the cards. - [App] Jane Doe, 12 hours ago, Brazil. Beautiful place and lists three items. - [Instructor] As you can see, this…

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