Patch Release: Messaging for In-App (Android)
This release implements comprehensive accessibility improvements for keyboard navigation across the Android SDK UI components. The changes introduce proper focus traversal handling, accessible focus indicators, and keyboard navigation enhancements for various UI elements including buttons, input fields, search panels, and pre-chat forms.
To learn more, see the Messaging for In-App Developer Guide.
This page covers the Android release notes. For iOS, see the iOS release notes.
New Features
API Changes
- Added a new branding token
smi_keyboard_focusfor customizing the focus indicator color for keyboard navigation.
Bug Fixes
- Accessibility - Fixed an accessibility bug where non-interactive elements had a Double Tap to Activate screen reader announcement.
- Accessibility - Improved keyboard focus traversal and navigation in search, conversation options page, and pre-chat forms.
- Accessibility - Focus indicator ripple now appears when using keyboard navigation.
- Accessibility - Fixed focus handling in ActionButton components.
- Accessibility - Added an accessible focus indicator to the search panel.
- Accessibility - Logical grouping for search results.
- Accessibility - Fixed an issue where the End Chat button in the conversation options page was inaccessible through keyboard navigation.