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Re: Focus handling on Native App

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jul 26, 2017 11:30AM

On iOS you can move focus by posting a notification with a layout change and include the control to focus as the second parameter.

UIAccessibilityPostNotification(UIAccessibilityLayoutChangedNotification,
controlToFocus);


On Android you typically have to allow the control to be focusable by setting setFocusable, etc. and then attempt to request focus. For controls that don't take typical focus you will likely need to create an accessibility focus event and dispatch the event using sendAccessibilityEvent. It's been a while since I played with this so I can't recall the specifics without researching it.

Jonathan

Jonathan Avila
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