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272 documented actions14 languagesResponsive on mobile and desktop

General actions

Press-and-hold help for app actions

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What does it do?

Standard action buttons across the app show concise guidance on press and hold using the selected language and theme. A single tap performs the action, while controls with dedicated guidance show more detailed usage steps.

Before you start

  • The control has to satisfy all three fallback conditions at once: it must be clickable, it must carry a visible label or content description, and its resource id must contain a keyword the intent resolver knows (close, back, create, delete, share, import, …). Fail any one and nothing is attached to it.
  • The owning screen must have run its coverage pass over the root view; a control added to the layout after that pass stays unbound until the screen binds again.

How do I use it?

  1. 1

    Press and hold any ordinary button in the app; a small panel appears whose heading is that button's own visible label or content description.

  2. 2

    Read the note, close the panel, and only then tap once to actually perform the action.

  3. 3

    Use the panel's docs link when you want the longer version — it opens the matching section of the web guide in your app language.

What success looks like

A card opens next to the button with that button's own label as its heading, keyboard focus jumps to the card's close button, and TalkBack reads the text aloud.

If it does not work

  • Holding produces the toast "Help could not be opened." instead of a card: on a floating, service-drawn surface the card needs a window of its own, which requires either a connected accessibility service or the "Display over other apps" permission — with neither, no window route can be resolved.
  • Holding does nothing and TalkBack's action list has no "Help" entry either: the control was skipped by the coverage pass, most often because it has no visible label or content description to title the card with.

Before you continue

Text fields and sliders are deliberately left out — their press-and-hold belongs to text selection and dragging — and a control that already uses long press for its own menu exposes this help only through TalkBack's action list, never by holding. The wording here is derived from the control's internal id keyword, so it stays generic; controls that own an authored entry replace it with real steps the moment you hold them.