Amazon Firestick; FireOS; VoiceOver reads "1 of 1" on each element of the list [BUG]

Question

FireStick VoiceOver is a direct AndroidTV Talkback competitor for helping disabled people use mobile apps.

When we have a list it reads the current index of the element on that list.

In this specific case it would read aloud: "appstore - seven of twenty-four" or "row two column one"

I'm using:

<androidx.leanback.widget.HorizontalGridView
    android:id="@+id/recycler_view_carousel"
    android:adapter="@{viewModel.items}" />

to display a leanback list of elements on AndroidTV/Amazon FireStick.

It always reads "one of one" for every element as if the list had just one position. What could be the reason for this?

Answer 1

The issue was caused by a bug in androidx-recyclerview library.

Solution:

androidx-recyclerview = "1.0.0"
androidx-recyclerview = "1.1.0"

configurations.all {
    resolutionStrategy {
        force deps.androidx.recyclerview
    }
}