Developing Inclusive Mobile Apps: Building Accessible Apps for iOS and Android

© Rob Whitaker 2020

R. WhitakerDeveloping Inclusive Mobile Appshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5814-9_4

4. Android Accessibility Model

Rob Whitaker¹ 

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Derby, UK

 

As is the case with the rest of the platform, Android accessibility is highly customizable. A large part of accessibility is about customizability, so Android has a huge edge here. If Android doesn’t have a system setting that suits a specific need, then any developer can create a custom accessibility service to fulfil that need. We’ll take a cursory look at this in the “Viewing the accessibility tree” activity later. Because of the wide variation in handsets and software versions available, for the avoidance of doubt, I’m using a Google Pixel device running Android 10.

Google’s design ...