Add IMM#invalidateInput()
Historically TextView#setText() has internally called
InputMethodManager#restartInput(View)
simply because the text seen from the IME is going to be out-of-sync.
Although this behavior is semantically helpful for IMEs, especially
after the initial surrounding text information became available in
EditorInfo, issuing a sync IPC from the calling thread (UI thread
actually) is not plausible from the performance perspective.
This CL fills this gap by adding a new API
InputMethodManager#invalidateInput(View)
for the scenario where apps independently modify the text with keeping
other text metadata such as input-type to be the same.
All the observable behaviors from the IME remain to be the same as
InputMethodManager#restartInput(View).
For instance, any pending tasks that are already issued with
InputMethodService#getCurrentInputConnection()
will be effectively cancelled by using a recently added mechanism [1].
[1]: I383c3958d2ac1a8d217706509fa12a92b381bbb3
Fix: 203086369
Test: atest -c CtsInputMethodTestCases:InputMethodStartInputLifecycleTest
Change-Id: I3161755779080f98bcef0e47dd0c5247d8a3a256
12 files changed