[nfbcs] Android Development Developments

[Rasmussen, Lloyd]

Blind programmers who wanted to develop apps for Android have in recent years used the Eclipse environment. As of about now, this environment is deprecated by Google, and people were concerned about how the recommended integrated development environment, Android Studio, could be used. In the last month or two some progress has been reported in making this environment accessible, at least under Windows. In addition to the Intelli-J environment mentioned below, another programmer on the Program-L listserv is using Sodbeans, a special version of the Netbeans environment designed for blind programmers and programming students.
I don't know much about the information below, so I suggest following the links or joining the blind programming listserv at
  Program-l at freelists.org<mailto:Program-l at freelists.org> .

Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Staff Engineer
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress
Washington, DC 20542   202-707-0535
http://www.loc.gov/nls/
The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of Congress, NLS.

From: program-l-bounce at freelists.org [mailto:program-l-bounce at freelists.org] On Behalf Of mohammad suliman
Sent: Friday, January 01, 2016 9:28 AM
To: program-l at freelists.org
Subject: [program-l] anroid studio and IntelliJ Idea accessibility, please contribute

Hi all,

For all the people who are interested in android studio or IntelliJ IDEs, the accessibility team looks to hear feedback about the accessibility they added recently. So, if one of the mentioned IDEs is important to you, you are greatly encouraged to help and test android studio accessibility and submit your feedback.
IntelliJ IDE will get all the accessibility fixes of android studio, so, if android studio become accessible, it means that IntelliJ is also accessible.

Android studio can be downloaded from the following link:
https://dl.google.com/dl/android/studio/ide-zips/2.0.0.4/android-studio-ide-143.2489090-windows.zip
this is the latest preview windows version, (2.0preview 4). To run it you need jdk 7 or later with java access bridge enabled.
This is a zip file, you need to unzip it first, then go to bin/studio32.exe or studio64.exe according to your OS.
Notes:
The mac version is still not accessible because of problems with the jdk there according to google.
 Here is some text quoted from a message sent recently to the list by Kevin which explains how to configure accessibility on windows with android studio:
"
Configuring Accessibility on Windows:
https://sites.google.com/a/android.com/tools/tech-docs/accessibility/configuring-accessibility-on-windows

Accessibility bugs should be reported at https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/entry use the following fields:
Type-Accessibility
Component-Tools
Appropriate "SubComponent", or "Subcomponent-Tools-Studio" if you can't find anything appropriate
Thanks!
"

I will send another message to inform you about the bugs I already reported,
Thanks and have a happy new year,
Mohammad