Android application floating windows and barrier-free controls

[boysj]

What is the problem or limitation you are having?

Can Android application floating windows and barrier-free controls, such as automatic clicking on specific coordinates, be implemented? If there is a corresponding document, please provide the address.

Describe the solution you'd like

I want to know how to implement it. If it has been implemented, please tell me the document address.

Describe alternatives you've considered

no

Additional context

No response

[freakboy3742]

Converted to a discussion because this is a generic request, rather than a specific enhancement proposal.

The short version is that no - we don't currently support Android floating windows or barrier-free controls.

This is, at least in part, because the features you've described are Android specific APIs. In order to be added to Toga as a cross-platform API, we'd need to find a cross-platform representation of the underlying ideas. That might be possible, but it needs some design work first.

However - any platform native API is also accessible, as long as you're comfortable with your app not being cross-platform. So, if you want to convert a window to be floating, you can use the native Android APIs for enabling that feature on the Toga app. Every Toga widget and window has a _impl attribute, and those _impl objects have at least a native attribute, and often other native instances. Those native instances are the underlying raw Java objects that can be manipulated as if they were actual Java, using the Chaquopy bridging layer.