Make TIME_TICK an unordered broadcast
TIME_TICK is a foreground broadcast that goes only to registered receivers, but was being dispatched via the ordered queue as a side- effect of being sent directly as an alarm operation. We now use a direct method-call alarm as the trigger and send it as an unordered broadcast instead. This eliminates the potential for observed issues of slow TIME_TICK handling leading to significant latencies for subsequent foreground-priority broadcasts such as live phone call flows. Bug: 111404343 Bug: 116719392 Test: atest CtsAlarmManagerTestCases Test: 'dumpsys activity broadcasts' and observe that TIME_TICK is no longer being dispatched as "ordered=true" Change-Id: I9c768668aaf6447221c905969ee6948e81958eb0
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