Can someone explain descendantFocusability = afterDescendants?

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Defines the relationship between the ViewGroup and its descendants when looking for a View to take focus.

Must be one of the following constant values.

+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|      Constant            Value            Description                                    |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| afterDescendants           1          The ViewGroup will get focus only if               |
|                                       none of its descendants want it.                   |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| beforeDescendants          0          The ViewGroup will get focus before                |
|                                       any of its descendants.                            |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| blocksDescendants          2          The ViewGroup will block its descendants from      |
|                                       receiving focus.                                   |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

You can check the complete example here.

The snippet is : 

public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
        int position, long id) {
    ListView listView = getListView();
    Log.d(TAG, "onItemSelected gave us " + view.toString());
    Button b = (Button) view.findViewById(R.id.button);
    EditText et = (EditText) view.findViewById(R.id.editor);
    if (b != null || et != null) {
        // Use afterDescendants to keep ListView from getting focus
        listView.setDescendantFocusability(ViewGroup.FOCUS_AFTER_DESCENDANTS);
        if(et!=null) et.requestFocus();
        else if(b!=null) b.requestFocus();
    } else {
        if (!listView.isFocused()) {
            // Use beforeDescendants so that previous selections don't re-take focus
            listView.setDescendantFocusability(ViewGroup.FOCUS_BEFORE_DESCENDANTS);
            listView.requestFocus();
        }
    }

}

As per the above snippet, afterDescendants is used to prevent listview from getting focus, so that either EditText or Button can request focus.

Note: The link provided above is broken. Please refer to my Gist for the code

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