Navigation focus in 2024: Supporting keyboard navigation with Compose
summary
Focus navigation for non-touch input on Android — keyboard, remote, and game controllers — and how to implement and preserve that support when migrating UI to Jetpack Compose. The talk explains focus-navigation fundamentals, provides a checklist and XML-based techniques for handling keyboard navigation, and then shows how those concepts and problem fixes map to Compose so apps remain fully usable after migration.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:05Focus navigation basics
- 3:55Two focus types
- 7:47Navigation focus types
- 9:59Common focus issues
- 14:22User focus expectations
- 16:48Grouping for navigation
- 18:57Focus indicator visibility
- 22:15Compose focus transition
- 24:22Making Compose focusable
- 26:52Handling key events
- 29:06Controlling focus flow
- 31:17Manually moving focus
- 33:05Testing keyboard focus
- 35:35Conclusion
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