This factors out the boiler-plate code from the sample
app to a common glue code that can be used for everyone
writing this style of app: a dedicated app thread that
takes care of waiting for events and processing them.
As part of doing this, ALooper has a new facility to allow
registration of fds that cause ALooper_pollOnce() to return
the fd that has data, allowing the app to drive the loop
without callbacks. Hopefully this makes some people feel better. :)
Also do some other cleanup of the ALooper API, plus some
actual documentation.
Change-Id: Ic53bd56bdf627e3ba28a3c093faa06a92be522b8
Added more tests.
Fixed a regression in Vector.
Fixed bugs in pointer tracking.
Fixed a starvation issue in PollLoop when setting or removing callbacks.
Fixed a couple of policy nits.
Modified the internal representation of MotionEvent to be more
efficient and more consistent.
Added code to skip/cancel virtual key processing when there are multiple
pointers down. This helps to better disambiguate virtual key presses
from stray touches (such as cheek presses).
Change-Id: I2a7d2cce0195afb9125b23378baa94fd2fc6671c
The old dispatch mechanism has been left in place and continues to
be used by default for now. To enable native input dispatch,
edit the ENABLE_NATIVE_DISPATCH constant in WindowManagerPolicy.
Includes part of the new input event NDK API. Some details TBD.
To wire up input dispatch, as the ViewRoot adds a window to the
window session it receives an InputChannel object as an output
argument. The InputChannel encapsulates the file descriptors for a
shared memory region and two pipe end-points. The ViewRoot then
provides the InputChannel to the InputQueue. Behind the
scenes, InputQueue simply attaches handlers to the native PollLoop object
that underlies the MessageQueue. This way MessageQueue doesn't need
to know anything about input dispatch per-se, it just exposes (in native
code) a PollLoop that other components can use to monitor file descriptor
state changes.
There can be zero or more targets for any given input event. Each
input target is specified by its input channel and some parameters
including flags, an X/Y coordinate offset, and the dispatch timeout.
An input target can request either synchronous dispatch (for foreground apps)
or asynchronous dispatch (fire-and-forget for wallpapers and "outside"
targets). Currently, finding the appropriate input targets for an event
requires a call back into the WindowManagerServer from native code.
In the future this will be refactored to avoid most of these callbacks
except as required to handle pending focus transitions.
End-to-end event dispatch mostly works!
To do: event injection, rate limiting, ANRs, testing, optimization, etc.
Change-Id: I8c36b2b9e0a2d27392040ecda0f51b636456de25
