Use TextureView

[ljbade]

Now that we target API level 15 and above we should switch to TextureView

The advantage is that we can treat a MapView the same as any other View. This will allow advanced layouts and may avoid bugs such as #2018 and #1894

@bleege Do we want to do this in 0.1.0 or 0.2.0?

[ljbade]

Started work on this.

[tobrun]

Nice, looking forward seeing this working!

Hopefully this will not be an issue:

The main strike against TextureView is the performance of the composition step. With SurfaceView, the content is written to a separate layer that SurfaceFlinger composites, ideally with an overlay. With TextureView, the View composition is always performed with GLES, and updates to its contents may cause other View elements to redraw as well (e.g. if they're positioned on top of the TextureView)

[bleege]

Do we want to do this in 0.1.0 or 0.2.0?

0.2.0. @ljbade This sounds like a good thing, but it's too late for 0.1.0.

[ljbade]

@bleege Sure we might have to move those bugs to 0.2.0 then.

[bleege]

Moving this to 0.1.0 as it solves Translucent Status bar issue in #1894 . See #1894 (comment) for more details.

Is there anything more to be done @ljbade or can we merge this one in as is?

[mb12]

@ tobrun Were you able to reproduce the original issue without these changes? My understanding is that this is a speculative fix for an issue which is not reproducible with latest master.

[tobrun]

@mb12 will do a small test before it gets merged

[incanus]

Per chat with @bleege, we are going to move this back to 0.2.0 since it's a bit of a refactor and is triggered only in an edge case. We can quickly wrap it into the next release cycle and go from there.

[tobrun]

@mb12
Problem still exists on master so TextureView is a valid fix.

Nice job @ljbade 👍

[mb12]

Great fix. This was a tough one.

[bleege]

Thanks for the feedback and tire kicking @tobrun @mb12 and @ljbade for making this happen. @incanus and I just discussed this and decided that we will make the time to include this now. Hopefully this will also solve #1894 too.

[bleege]

Merged.