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package androidx.input.motionprediction;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.view.View;
import androidx.annotation.NonNull;
import androidx.annotation.Nullable;
import androidx.input.motionprediction.kalman.KalmanMotionEventPredictor;
/**
* There is a gap between the time a user touches the screen and that information is reported to the
* app; a motion predictor is a utility that provides predicted {@link android.view.MotionEvent}
* based on the previously received ones. Obtain a new predictor instance using
* {@link #newInstance(android.view.View)}; put the motion events you receive into it with
* {@link #recordMovement(android.view.MotionEvent)}, and call {@link #predict()} to retrieve the
* predicted {@link android.view.MotionEvent} that would occur at the moment the next frame is
* rendered on the display. Once no more predictions are needed, call {@link #dispose()} to stop it
* and clean up resources.
*/
public interface MotionEventPredictor {
/**
* Record a user's movement to the predictor. You should call this for every
* {@link android.view.MotionEvent} that is received by the associated
* {@link android.view.View}.
* @param event the {@link android.view.MotionEvent} the associated view received and that
* needs to be recorded.
*/
void recordMovement(@NonNull MotionEvent event);
/**
* Compute a prediction
* @return the predicted {@link android.view.MotionEvent}, or null if not possible to make a
* prediction.
*/
@Nullable
MotionEvent predict();
/**
* Notify the predictor that no more predictions are needed. Any subsequent call to
* {@link #predict()} will return null.
*/
void dispose();
/**
* Create a new motion predictor associated to a specific {@link android.view.View}
* @param view the view to associated to this predictor
* @return the new predictor instance
*/
static @NonNull MotionEventPredictor newInstance(@NonNull View view) {
return new KalmanMotionEventPredictor();
}
}