o Removed setMode() methods and related mode constants
o Removed some of the unused the metadata keys
o Updated the javadoc
o part of a multi-project change.
bug - 2433195
Change-Id: I5ed167f1fd6a53cb143b7dc385b149431d434438
This patch modifies the native binder interface to the metadata
retriever to pass the caller's thread group across the binder
interface. On the server side, the thread scheduler group is
set to the caller's scheduler group temporarily and restored
after the request has completed. This patch also reverts a
previous patch where the priority of the thread was forced to
a low priority foreground thread.
This should give apps more control over the priority of their
metadata retrieval, particularly allow background process to
run without hogging the CPU.
The android.hardware.ICamera string have not been changed (but is looks
like the camera service and client one should undergo the same procedure)
The implementation of the interface must provide a unique string for
it's interface name. Currently all these strings in the media framework
start with 'android.hardware' when it should really be 'android.media',
the interface token has nothing to do with hardware.
- make sure that all binder Bn classes define a ctor and dtor in their respective library.
This avoids duplication of the ctor/dtor in libraries where these objects are instantiated.
This is also cleaner, should we want these ctor/dtor to do something one day.
- same change as above for some Bp classes and various other non-binder classes
- moved the definition of CHECK_INTERFACE() in IInterface.h instead of having it everywhere.
- improved the CHECK_INTERFACE() macro so it calls a single method in Parcel, instead of inlining its code everywhere
- IBinder::getInterfaceDescriptor() now returns a "const String16&" instead of String16, which saves calls to String16 and ~String16
- implemented a cache for BpBinder::getInterfaceDescriptor(), since this does an IPC. HOWEVER, this method never seems to be called.
The cache makes BpBinder bigger, so we need to figure out if we need this method at all.
