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
This allows us to avoid exposing the file descriptor of
the event queue; instead, you attach an event queue to
a looper. This will also should allow native apps to be
written without the need for a separate thread, by attaching
the event queue to the main thread's looper and scheduling
their own messages there.
Change-Id: I38489282635895ae2cbfacb88599c1b1cad9b239
