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Handle Single Activity layouts

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Handle Single Activity layouts

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- [Instructor] One common pattern that a lot of developers use on Android is to avoid creating too many activities and rely on managing multiple fragments inside a single activity. However, this creates a problem for accessibility services. Let's take a look at the single activity example in our app. With TalkBack enabled, go ahead and select the Single Activity button. - [Phone Voice] Single Activity button. Single Activity. - [Instructor] When I select an item in this list, a detail view will open. - [Phone Voice] Option 4 and list 20 items. - [Instructor] Note that I can still navigate to the items behind this fragment overlay. - [Phone Voice] Option 3, Option 2, double-tap to activate. - [Instructor] The reason why it behaves like that is because fragments were originally created to support larger screens such as tablets in a multi-pin UI environment, where you would have, for example, a ListView on the left and the DetailView on the right. E-mail apps are examples of this…

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