This is a demo app with audio charts rendering and functionality. Allows for other apps to render accessible audio charts. To see it in action, please build the demo app on your device or emulator. You can also try it out on the Yahoo Finance Android app on the Play Store, that uses this library to make audio charts available.
Charts such as stocks, sports scores and political polls are still almost impossible to use for people with visual impairment. The quick summary of thousands or more data points charts are meant for is virtually not usable for about 300 million people worldwide and for users on a voice interface. This is a first step towards changing that.
https://youtu.be/d_c-auuDsz8 here is a demo video of audio charts in action
This project embodies Verizon Media's commitment to accessibility and to going above and beyond in making our products accessible to all. What started as a conversation about the state of charts for users with visual impairment led to an initial prototype, several user stidies and finally, this solution presenting primarily visual information with music and haptics. We realize that this problem is bigger than financial graphs are also hoping to see where the open source community takes this approach and applies it to interfaces such as voice, web etc. The tones are played in Hz. This is largely a reference implementation and we'll try to review pull requests as we can. We are however not sure of the SLAs yet. Thank you!
In dependencies section of modules build.gradle add reference
to SDK library:
// Project-wide build.gradle
// Add maven repository
allprojects {
repositories {
maven { url 'https://raw.github.com/yahoo/SongbirdCharts/songbird/' }
}
}
// App build.gradle
dependencies {
// ...
// Songbird SDK
compile 'com.yahoo.finance:songbird:1.3.1' // Use latest versionrere
// ...
}
If you've never used git before, please take a moment to familiarize yourself with what it is and how it works. To install this project, you'll need to have git installed and set up on your local dev environment.
It's as easy as adding this view to your XML file:
<com.yahoo.mobile.android.audiocharts.view.SongbirdChartView
android:id="@+id/songbird_view"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"/>
Initializing it with a AudioChartViewModel and a ScrubCallback:
songbirdView.setViewModel(chartViewModel)
And act on that chart object to have it do whatever you need (more details below):
songbirdView.playSummaryAudio()
Don't forget to dispose when you're done:
songbirdView.dispose()
Plays each chart point's tone in succession
Notifies SongbirdChartView to dispose of any disposables to avoid memory leaks
The summary content description for the chart view, not applied on it's own. You can use this in your own view wherever it fits best. The sample uses it in the toolbar.
The value that represents the dotted benchmark line that goes horizontally across the chart
The chart data points
Price hint for the price labels renderd in the y-axis (e.g. priceHint of 2.0 will render 100.00)
Displays x-axis with timestamps. True by default
The XAxisLabels to be displayed if showXAxis is true
Displays y-axis with highestPointValue, lowestPointValue, benchmark value, and the last value in the list. True by default
The color of the gradient below the chart line
The color of the chart line itself
The color of the dotted benchmark line
The value of this point
The timestamp of this point in milliseconds
The index of this point in the list
To be notified whenever the user swiped onto this point and is now focused on it in talkback mode
The index of this label in the list
The timestamp converted into a string format to be displayed. Typically uses the AudioChartPointViewModel's timestamp when the index matches. It's up to you to format the timestamp to your needs.
The chart has received a motion event at this rawX (one finger drag when talkback is off, two finger drag when talkback is on)
The chart was being scrubbed and has now been released at this rawX
context: Used to retrieve the screen width in pixels
numItems: the total number of chart points
x: rawX of the Touch MotionEvent
returns the closest index of AudioChartPointViewModel that maps to the rawX
Please refer to the contributing.md file for information about how to get involved. We welcome issues, questions, and pull requests. Pull Requests are welcome.
Finance Mobile Android finance-android-dev@verizonmedia.com
This project is licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 open source license. Please refer to LICENSE for the full terms.