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
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