| This library (com.android.media.tv.remoteprovider.jar) is a shared java library |
| containing classes required by unbundled atv remote providers. |
| |
| --- Rules of this library --- |
| o This library is effectively a System API for unbundled emote service provider |
| that may be distributed outside the system image. So it MUST BE API STABLE. |
| You can add but not remove. The rules are the same as for the |
| public platform SDK API. |
| o This library can see and instantiate internal platform classes, but it must not |
| expose them in any public method (or by extending them via inheritance). This would |
| break clients of the library because they cannot see the internal platform classes. |
| |
| This library is distributed in the system image, and loaded as |
| a shared library. So you can change the implementation, but not |
| the interface. In this way it is like framework.jar. |
| |
| --- Why does this library exist? --- |
| |
| Unbundled atv remote providers (such as Emote app) cannot use internal |
| platform classes. |
| |
| This library will eventually be replaced when the inputmanager |
| infrastructure is ready with APIs allowing unbundled system apps to |
| inject events into uhid. |
| That API isn't ready yet so this library is a compromise to |
| make new capabilities available to the system. |
