1. Updated the empty state of the all printers activity to show no printers message
if the user is searching and there are no matches and a searching for printers
message if the user is not filtering the printers list.
2. Adding the fake PDF printer after the historical printers are loaded to avoid the case
where we select the PDF printer and immediately after that the most used printer is
selected resulting in an undesirable UI flicker.
3. Fixed a bug where if the most used printer which is initially considered unavailable
is reported by the print service as available but the UI is not properly updated
leaving the user in no way to click on the print button.
bug: 10983508
Change-Id: I60fdb7761332850fd5b9ffc0cb572a6213024dba
The empty state is now showing searching for printers hint if
the user is not searching, otherwise the empty state's hint is
a searching for printers message.
bug:10983508
Change-Id: I3df79c167546998c8055d9ff85efa8b460a15e48
1. The refresh button in a print notification was using
wrong asset.
2. If the page count is unknown, just not show the page
count instead unknown.
bug:10983508
Change-Id: I15f1fcbff60fe1f30d37868864da41550bb14487
1. Initially we have a single printer, the fake PDF printer, and
wait for printers to be discovered. This printer was handling
only a couple of media sizes. Hence, if the app provides a
media size hint and the PDF printer does not support it, we
were essentially ignoring the suggested media size since it
was not supported by the selected printer and we fell back to
the default paper size for that printer. The fake PDF printer
should support all predefined media sizes.
2. The list of available paper sizes was shown in the order they
are added ignoring the current locale. It is much better user
experience if the media sizes used in the current locale are
shown at the top and all others after that. Also the media
sizes for the current locale should be alphabetically ordered
so the user can quickly find the desired one.
3. The orientation was reset on media size or printer change.
bug:10564537
Change-Id: Iaa0d42242730ce69cea3effd4d0f4bc087068804
1. Limit the width of the dropdown of the printers list.
2. Add icons the the list in the all pritners activity.
3. Update the empty state view for the all printers activity.
bug:10983508
Change-Id: I19effcf32770fdda278009a060b5170a3f29988e
The user can select all printers from the print dropdown to get to
a search for printers activity where one can filter out the list
of a available printers. We did not have an empty state UI for the
case when the query yields no printers.
bug:11009053
Change-Id: I6b45517b8a7b319992019a1bf65858319a19a0de
A print service may choose to provide only the printer info and then when
it is requested to start tracking the state of the printer, the service
should provide the printer capabilities. If the capabilities are not
received within ten seconds we mark the printer as unavailable and stop
tracking it.
bug:10748639
Change-Id: I9171cb5dc116fd321c23a8e4ab55109448e2fc6a
1. The printers in the printers list of settings change position if
they are updated. The settings app is using hidden platform APIs
the this change fixes.
2. Enable ProGuard for the PrintSpooler.
3. Added icons on the list of printers so the user knows which
print service used the printer. Now the user can know when
he is using cloud print and maybe incurring data costs vs
local printer discovered by a vendor plug in.
bug:10955751
Change-Id: I292f48b424cb561218fdb424d0388f4d786d8339
1. If the printer is unavailable we should not allow the user
to select it. Rather, show it grayed out.
2. Some string changes requeted by translators.
bug:10917222
Change-Id: I370f05f9c8e70e3f077db7eb02cf48e19a59925d
The user has to explicitly enable a print service from the settings UI
before using it. Usually, users very rarely if at all interact with print
services, therefore all print service management task are performed from
the print settings. We also have to get user consent warning that the
user's data is about to be given to a third-party app. We now post a
notification allowing the user to go directly to the settings screen to
turn the service on.
bug:10447510
Change-Id: Iea56c0825f0bf38328ad94912f0ea5576e9339b3
1. The print dialog was resizable and as a result when printers
come and go its size changes which looks bad. The dialog is
now trying to be maximally large limited by a max size or the
screen - whichever is smaller. This required moving from
GridLayout to several LinearLayouts since the former does not
support distribution of empty space evently between the items
in a row. Also we want all items in a column of inputs to be
of equal size (the spinners specifically).
2. Added labeledBy attribute to associate a view with another one
that serves as its label for accessibility purposes. We have
lebelFor attribute but it is not useful in most layout files
since it has to refer the auto-generated id of a view which
usually appears later in the layout file, thus generating a
compilation error. This was needed for the accessibility support
of the print dialog.
bug:10631660
2. Disabling the spinners or the print button did not produce
visual feedback leading to user frustration.
bug:10741907
Change-Id: I0c12eddabc4035bc7becd1b86c1f1b8fdcf4289c
1. The UI of a printing app was freezing a little when calling the print
method since the print manager service was waiting for it to bind to the
print spooler which generated the print job id (and the initial print
job info really). Now the print manager service is responsible for job
id generation and does not not wait for the print spooler to spin. Hence,
the app UI is not blocked at all. Note that the print manager initiates
the binding to the spooler and as soon as it completes the spooler shows
the print UI which is hosted in its process. It is not possible to show
the print UI before the system is bound to the spooler since during this
binding the system passes a callback to the spooler so the latter can
talk to the system.
2. Changed the print job id to be an opaque class allowing us to vary the
way we generate print job ids in the future.
3. The queued print job state was hidden but the print job returned by the
print method of the print manager is in that state. Now now hidden.
4. We were incorrecly removing print job infos if they are completed or
cancelled. Doing that is problematic since the print job returned by
the print method allows the app to query for the job info after the
job has been say completed. Hence, an app can initiate printing and
get a print job whose state is "created" and hold onto it until after
the job is completed, now if the app asks for the print job info it
will get an info in "created" state even though the job is "completed"
since the spooler was not retaining the completed jobs. Now the spooler
removes the PDF files for the completed and cancelled print jobs but
keeps around the infos (also persisting them to disc) so it can answer
questions about them. On first boot or switch to a user we purge the
persisted print jobs in completed/cancelled state since they
are obsolete - no app can have a handle to them.
5. Removed the print method that takes a file since we have a public
PrintDocumentAdapter implementation for printing files. Once can
instantiate a PrintFileDocumentAdapter and pass it to the print
method. This class also allows overriding of the finish method to
know when the data is spooled and deleted the file if desired, etc.
6. Replaced the wrong code to slice a large list of parcelables to
use ParceledListSlice class.
bug:10748093
Change-Id: I1ebeeb47576e88fce550851cdd3e401fcede6e2b
1. If a print service does not export its activities for settings and
adding printers the print spooler ignores them instead of crashing.
Also if the service is not enabled its activities are now ignored.
2. Added a dedicated permission for a print service to optionally
protect its settings and add printer activities such that only the
system can bind to them.
3. Fixed a crash in the print dialog if its content is detached
from the window and animators are running.
bug:10680224
Change-Id: I20b57d6622a15f9b2352ba78d04c44e67b316a15
1. Fused printers loader was not using the discovered printers to update the
historical ones. Now if a historical printer is discovered we update its state
with the discovered, i.e. most recent, information.
2. Fixed a bug in the destination adapter of the print job config dialog that
was leading to a crash if all printers item is selected when there are no
discovered printers.
3. Updated the add printers asset in the all printers screen.
4. Historical printers were not persisted by the print dialog activity.
5. Reduced the number of printers we send per transation to avoid the binder
transaction size limit. Added sending of printers in chunks in a place
this was missing.
Change-Id: I88b54888360bc0e53b06bd260c2b832d0d6454b6
1. Updated the security mode of the print spooler. Now the spooler
is not signed with the system key, it is not a privileged app so if
it gets compromised (PDF rendering is a potential attack vector)
it cannot access dangerous permissions. Also only the system
can bind to the spooler.
2. Added APIs for asking a print service to start and stop tracking
a given printer. This is need for the case when the user selects
the printer and the print service should do a best effort to keep
the system updated for the current state of the printer.
3. Added APIs for putting a print job in a blocked state. A print
service would report the print job as blocked if for some reason
the printer cannot proceed, e.g. 99 pages are printed but there
is no paper for the last one. The user has to add more paper
and the print service can resume the job.
4. Changed the read/write APIs to use ParcelFileDescriptor instead
of FileDescriptor since the latter does not have a clean API for
detaching the wrapped Linux file descriptor when one wants to
push it to native.
5. Added API for getting the size of the printed document so the
print service can avoid handling big filed over cellular network
or ask the user if needed.
6. Now the print services that are preinstalled on the system image
are automatically enabled.
Change-Id: Ia06c311d3d21cabb9e1368f13928e11cd0030918
1. Added support for selecting a printer from the all printers activity
that is not in the initial printer selection drop down. The user
initially sees a sub set of the printers in the drop down and the
last option is to see all printers in a separate activity. Some
of the printers in the all printers activity are not shown in the
initial drop down.
2. Refactored printer discovery by adding (private for now) printer
discovery app facing APIs. These APIs are needed to support multiple
printer selection activities (print dialog and all printers activities)
and also the settings for showing all printers for a service.
Now multiple apps can request observing for printers and there is
a centralized mediator that ensures the same printer discovery
session is used. The mediator dispatches printer discovery specific
requests to print services. It also aggregates discovered printers
and delivers them to the interested apps. The mediator minimizes
printer discovery session creation and starting and stopping discovery
by sharing the same discovery session and discovery window with
multiple apps. Lastly, the mediator takes care of print services
enabled during discovery by bringing them up to the current
discovery state (create discovery session and start discovery if
needed). The mediator also reports disappearing of the printers
of a service removed during discovery and notifies a newly
registered observers for the currnet printers if the observers are
added during an active printer discovery session.
3. Fixed bugs in the print UI and implemented some UX tweaks.
Change-Id: I4d0b0c5a6c6f1809b2ba5dbc8e9d63ab3d48f1ef
1. Added past printer history tracking and merging favorite printers
with discovered printers.
2. Added save as PDF support.
3. Added all printers activity with search capability and optional
add printers chooser (if any print service provides add printers
activity)
4. Refactored the printer discovery session APIs. Now one session
can have multiple window discovery windows and the session stores
the printers found during past discovery periods.
5. Merged the print spooler and the print spooler service - much
simpler and easier to maintain.
Change-Id: I4830b0eb6367e1c748b768a5ea9ea11baf36cfad
1. Added a dedicated class that keeps track of the user's favorite printers
based on past usage. We keep the last 50 uses and assign a decreasing weight
to older historical use records. The printer whose records' sum is the
largest is considered the favorite for the user and so on.
2. Factored out the printer discovery logic from the print job config activity
into a separate available printers provider class. It encapsulates all the
logic to communicated with the remote print services to discover printers,
keep track of added, updated, and removed printers.
3. Preliminary scetch of the printer chooser acitivty that will show all the
printers.
Change-Id: I5524665f2a9a565f186db85214d5e41a44f4812e
1. Refreshed the print UI based on UX redlines.
2. Implemented tap outside cancel for the print job config activity
which is full-screen but pretends to be a dialog.
Change-Id: I5afc7cd40c696109d70af31536898cfcad91b2ab
1. Update the transition between the print job edit dialog and the
generating print job dialog. Now the former shrinks into the
latter.
2. Added most of the notification assets.
Change-Id: I84f35df5cb4f71b86a103c16ab87fd4d108b055b
1. Added a dialog to show a spinner while the app is writing the
printed content.
2. Fixed print job config acitivity leaking.
3. Updated the notifications a bit.
Change-Id: I8314390135a49605ee11ab4ed14b210a29566745
1. Added notifications for a queued print job, for a started print job,
for ongoing canceling a print job, and for a failed print job. The
notifications for queued and started state have a cancel action. The
notification for failed print job has a cancel and a restart action.
2. Propagating failure message from the print service to the notifications.
3. PrintJobConfigActivity was not setting the initial value for the
print job copies and was not updating the UI immediately after creation.
4. Refactored PrintJobConfigActivity to avoid using the hack to avoid
reaction for item selection change in a spinner for an event that
happened before the callback was registered.
5. Removed the label attribute from PrinterInfo and now PrinterId is
composed of the printer name and the service component name. This
is nice since for restarting print jobs we do not need to store
information about the printer except the printer id which is
already part of the PrintJobInfo's data. Also the printer name
is not expected to change anyway.
6. Allowing cancellation of a queued print job. Also no print job is
cancelled without asking the managing print service to do that.
Before we were immediately canceling print jobs in queued state
but it was possible for a buggy print service to not set the
print job state to started before starting to do expensive work
that will not be canceled.
7. PrintServiceInfo was throwing an exception the the meta-data
XML for the print service was not well-formed which would crash
the system process. Now we just ignore not well-formed meta-data.
8. Removed unused permissions from the PrintSpooler's manifest.
Change-Id: Iba2dd14b487f56e137b90d1da17c3033422ab5e6
1. API changes: Moved copies API from PrintAttributes to PrintJobInfo;
Changed the PageRange list to an array in PrintDocumentAdapter#onWrite;
Added onCancelled method to the layout and write callbacks.
2. Refactored the serialization of remote layout and write commands. Now
the commands are serialized by the code in the client instead in the spooler.
The benefit is simple code since the client has to do a serialization to delegate
to the main thread anyway. The increased IPC found is fine since these calls
are quite unfrequent.
3. Removed an unused file: IPrintSpoolerObserver.aidl
4. Added equals and hasCode implementation to PageRange, PrintAttributes,
MediaSize, Resolution, Margins, Tray, PrintDocumentInfo.
5. Added shortcut path for query APIs on PrintJob that return cached values
if the print job is in a uncuttable state, i.e. completed or cancelled. Failed
print jobs can be restarted.
6. PrintJobInfo was not properly serialized.
7. Updated the look of the print dialog to be stable if there is and there isn't
currently selected printer.
8. PrintJobCOnfigActivity now calls onLayout on every print attributes change
but requests a write only on print preview or print button press. Also if the
layout did not change the content and it is already written no subsequent
call is made. Also if the selected pages change and we already have them
no subsequent call to write is made. Also the app is called with print preview
attribute set when performing layout and with it cleared after the print button
is pressed. A lot of changes making sure that only valid actions are enabled
in the activity (looks like a dialog) at a given time frame. The print job config
activity is also hidden after we got all the data, i.e. layout and write are done.
9. The callback from the print spooler to the system are scheduled via messages
to avoid lock being held during the call. It was hard to guarantee that since a
method holding a lock may be calling one that would like to release the lock
at some point to make the callbacks.
10. Print spooler state is persisted only if something changes in a completed
print job, i.e. not one that is being constructed due the print job config dialog.
11. Fixed a potential race in the RemotePrintSpooler where it was possible that
a client that got a handle to the remote spooler calls into an unbound spooler.
E.g: the client gets the remote interface with a lock held, now the client releases
the lock to avoid IPC with a lock, during the IPC scheduling the spooler has
notified the system that it is done and the system unbinds from it, now the
client's IPC is made to a spooler that is disconnected.
Change-Id: Ie9c42255940a27ecaed21a4d326a663a4788ac9d
1. Added support for reporting the old print attributes during layout.
Now we keep track of the old print attributes, so the app can
compute the delta and decide whether re-layout work is needed.
2. Fixed PrintDocumentAdapter callback interleavings. Layout callbacks
were intermixing with write ones - a mess. Now we make an attempt
to cancel layout and write if they respond to cancellation, otherwise
we wait but do not interleave them.
3. Refactored the PrintJobConfigActivity for easier maintenance and
to have a single update UI method that does the minimal amount
of work.
Change-Id: I31ada1a0550882e6185018e6f17f923aed165d15
