Introduce View#probablyHasInput
Exposes a hidden (behind @hide) method in android.view.View backed by
InputConsumer::probablyHasInput() from frameworks/native introduced by
ag/25438533.
More specifically: `boolean View#possiblyHasInput()`.
Usage constraints:
0. This is experimental. The usefulness of the hint has not been
broadly proven, and the functionality can be removed soon if there is
no robust data to support the usefulness.
1. The high-level API visible to apps would be effectively opt-in: does
not create any state if not used.
2. An app could use this hint to yield from longer tasks on the UI
thread (which it is not supposed to create in the first place). This
is a very niche workaround for Chrome's complexity.
3. Using the Input Hint in WebView should probably be disabled: WebView
has less control over the embedding app than Chrome, and less
knowledge when to prioritize for input handling.
4. There is a good question whether probablyHasInput() should guarantee
to return true only when input is queued. While it is good to return
precise results, clients should only use this API as an optimization
hint without sacrificing correctness. Due to the growing complexity
of input handling on Android, it is not too hard to imagine that in
some not-too-distant future input would get filtered by the Framework
on the application side, potentially skipping the contents from the
ready-to-read file descriptor or an accumulated InputConsumer batch.
Bug: b/314973388
Test: Tested with a custom build of Chrome, it returns true sometimes.
Change-Id: I874767fcea9a0f31ad510919599af50cf33c7980
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