Accessibility/talkback and Balloon

[rahulmcs]

Is there anyway for the balloon to focus itself automatically when shown using the showAlignBottom() method when accessibility talkback is on? If i tap on the view when talkback is on then the view reads out the text correctly but it doesnt focus itself automatically.

[rahulmcs]

@skydoves ? Would you have any suggestions?

[skydoves]

Hello @rahulmcs, could you explain more details about the doesn't focus automatically?
Which actions are expected?

[rahulmcs]

Basically, once the ballon has been shown using e.g.showAlignBottom(), i would like the tooltip to get focussed and talkback to read the contents of the tooltip automatically. Is there any in-built mechanism within the library for this to happen? If not then I tried the following:

createTooltipError(...).apply{
showAlignBottom(...)
val handler = Handler()
handler.postDelayed({

            getContentVew().performAccessibilityAction(
                AccessibilityNodeInfo.ACTION_ACCESSIBILITY_FOCUS,
                null
            )
            getContentVew().sendAccessibilityEvent(AccessibilityEvent.TYPE_VIEW_SELECTED)
        }, 500)

}
The above code manages to focus the balloon view for a while but the text inside is not read out.
If i manually tap the balloon when talkback is on, then it gets focussed as well as reads the contents of the view as well.
@skydoves

[rahulmcs]

i finally got it to work by also setting getContentView().importantForAccessibility = IMPORTANT_FOR_ACCESSIBILITY_YES before executing the code above.

[skydoves]

Thank you @rahulmcs for sharing your solution!