Clear inline suggestions before onFinishInput
* The problem with sending empty response to IME is that the IME
may want to handle the following two cases differently:
a) all suggestions are filtered out due to user typing: ime may
want to immediately delete the existing suggestions to make
place for other types of things, such as IME's own word
completion or next word prediction.
b) the current input connection is finished and a new connection
will be created with the same field or a different field:
ime may want to delay removing the suggestions so that if there
is new inline suggestions coming soon after for the next
connection, the UI transition can be smoothed out by skipping
the gap of deleting the old suggestions and showing the new
suggestions.
* We used to rely on the IME impl to clear the suggestions when input
is finished. That was done to give the IME the flexibility to
smooth out the UI updates. Otherwise in case the input connection
is finished and immediately started again on the same field,
and there is another non-empty suggestion coming after short after,
it would cause UI flicker. Because the suggsetion chips would
disappear for a short moment and then appear again.
* The previously implemented solution was to have the IME impl post a
delayed deletion of the suggestions when onFinishInput is called.
* In this patch, we get around this issue by synchronously clearing
the inline suggestions right before the onFinishInput. Then the
IME impl can post a callback to the main thread to do the actual
delection. And in the callback it can check whether onFinishInput
and onStartInput was called right before to determine whether
it needs to delay the delection or delete immediately.
* Also done in this patch is to clear existing inline suggestions,
if any, before IME creating a new callback connection to the
framework.
Test: atest android.autofillservice.cts.inline
Bug: 157515522
Change-Id: I6fd5d294cf8676a24b8576ea554824608672ce49
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