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| author | Yohei Yukawa <yukawa@google.com> | 2019-01-22 13:26:45 -0800 |
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| committer | Yohei Yukawa <yukawa@google.com> | 2019-01-22 13:26:45 -0800 |
| commit | 92c15b1baf1ed2d40a93422d4db5d18d83e9b69f (patch) | |
| tree | 94b324b4e0038b1160a54169b7cac1515a9b32ce /core/java/android | |
| parent | 065aac1a1ef717d269d053be0ae9d805091773a9 (diff) | |
Deprecate InputMethodManager#setAdditionalInputMethodSubtypes()
This CL marks InputMethodManager#setAdditionalInputMethodSubtypes()
deprecated. There is no actual implementation change at this moment,
but developers should be informed that this API may stop working in a
future version of Android. IME developers should start migration
right now.
Since this feature was implemented in Android 4.0 ICS [1], there have
been many tricky bugs and documented/undocumented pitfalls. For IMEs
that have already implemented features like customizable/downloadable
keyboard layouts/languages, most likely re-implementing IMEs' own
language switching mechanism then exposing only one unified IME
subtype to the system would be a better long term choice.
[1]: Ic7869cfaa5361531e08d58d7dfa5ba0feab0613e
ee5e77cafec2eae70890abdcc1646ed39b06eddd
Fix: 121220151
Test: make -j checkbuild
Change-Id: I781abde2d6d97b8420b29b80e14b9cce97482754
Diffstat (limited to 'core/java/android')
| -rw-r--r-- | core/java/android/view/inputmethod/InputMethodManager.java | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/core/java/android/view/inputmethod/InputMethodManager.java b/core/java/android/view/inputmethod/InputMethodManager.java index 86c5f188ffab..71b41ca76eec 100644 --- a/core/java/android/view/inputmethod/InputMethodManager.java +++ b/core/java/android/view/inputmethod/InputMethodManager.java @@ -2642,7 +2642,13 @@ public final class InputMethodManager { * * @param imiId Id of InputMethodInfo which additional input method subtypes will be added to. * @param subtypes subtypes will be added as additional subtypes of the current input method. + * @deprecated For IMEs that have already implemented features like customizable/downloadable + * keyboard layouts/languages, please start migration to other approaches. One idea + * would be exposing only one unified {@link InputMethodSubtype} then implement + * IME's own language switching mechanism within that unified subtype. The support + * of "Additional Subtype" may be completely dropped in a future version of Android. */ + @Deprecated public void setAdditionalInputMethodSubtypes(String imiId, InputMethodSubtype[] subtypes) { try { mService.setAdditionalInputMethodSubtypes(imiId, subtypes); |