The termux plugins should use this library instead of hardcoding "com.termux" values in their source code.
The library can be included as a dependency by plugins and third party apps by including the following line in the build.gradle where x.xxx is the version number, once its published.
`implementation 'com.termux:termux-shared:x.xxx'`
The `TermuxConstants` class has been updated to `v0.17.0`, `TermuxPreferenceConstants` to `v0.9.0` and `TermuxPropertyConstants` to `v0.6.0`. Check their Changelog sections for info on changes.
Some typos and redundant code has also been fixed.
TermuxSession will maintain info for foreground Termux sessions. Each terminal session started by TermuxService will now be linked to a ExectionCommand that started it.
This also fixes bugs where newly created session in some cases were not being automatically selected and scrolled to, like when adding a named or failsafe session or those which were created for executable intents.
The `SharedPreferenceUtils` class has been added to provide static util functions for shared preferences like get and set while safely handling exceptions. The `TermuxSharedPreferences` class has been renamed to `TermuxAppSharedPreferences` since its to be used to handle only Termux App related shared preferences and not of other plugin apps. For plugin apps, separate classes can be created. However, Termux app and its plugins will share the same `TermuxPreferenceConstants` class that now has per app scoping since `v0.3.0`.
This commit majorly refactors `TermuxActivity` and moves its view components and functions into dedicated classes.
- The view layouts and ids have been given meaningful names, like `termux_activity.xml`.
- The `TerminalToolbarViewPager` class has been created to handle the now called toolbar that shows on the bottom of the terminal view. It currently contains extra keys view defined by `terminal_toolbar_extra_keys_view.xml` file and a text input view defined by `terminal_toolbar_text_input_view.xml` file when user can switch to by swiping left. The input text will now be preserved if android destroys the activity or its recreated.
- The `TermuxSessionsListViewController` class has been created to handle view related functionality of the termux sessions list shown in the left drawer, namely view creation, `onItemClick()`, `onItemLongClick()`, etc. Its list view is defined by `termux_activity.xml` file and each item's layout is defined by the `terminal_sessions_list_item.xml` file.
- The `TextDataUtils` class has been added to the `com.termux.app.utils` package for text utils.
- The design for the `SessionChangedCallback` interface for `TerminalSession` has been majorly changed. Firstly, it has been renamed and moved from `TerminalSession` to the dedicated `TerminalSessionClient` class file. The interface now also supports the termux app centralized logging framework so that `TerminalSession` and `TerminalEmulator` can use them. Previously, `TermuxService` was implementing a wrapper interface, which would then call the real interface defined by the `TermuxActivity` if it was currently bound to the service. This cluttered and partially duplicated the code. Now, the implementation is defined by the `TermuxSessionClientBase` and `TermuxSessionClient` classes. The `TermuxSessionClientBase` implements the `TerminalSessionClient` interface but the definition of the activity related functions do not do anything, only the background ones like the logging functions are fully implemented. The `TermuxSessionClient` class inherits from the `TermuxSessionClientBase` class and provides the implementation for the activity related functions. The design for how this works is that if the `TermuxService` is not bound to `TermuxActivity`, it just passes the `TermuxSessionClientBase` implementation to `TerminalSession`. If the activity is bound at some point, then in `onServiceConnected()` it replaces/updates the client objects stored in `TerminalSession` and `TerminalEmulator` with `TermuxSessionClient`, and then replaces them back with `TermuxSessionClientBase` in `onDestroy()`. This seems to be working for now without an issue.
The settings activity can be accessed by long pressing on terminal view and selecting "Settings" from the popup shown. It uses the Android's Preference framework. Currently only debugging preferences to set log level and enabling terminal view key logging are provided. The Preference framework by default uses the keys set in `app:key` attribute in the respective preferences XML file to store the values in the default `SharedPreferences` file of the app. However, since we rely on `TermuxPreferenceConstants` and `TermuxPropertyConstants` classes to define key names so that they can be easily shared between termux and its plugin apps, we provide our own `PreferenceDataStore` for storing key/value pairs. The key name in the XML file can optionally be the same. Check `DebuggingPreferencesFragment` class for a sample. Each new preference category fragment should be added to `app/settings/` with its data store.
This commit may allow support to be added for modifying `termux.properties` file directly from the UI but that requires more work, since writing to property files with comments require in-place modification.
The `Logger` class provides various static functions for logging that should be used from now on instead of directly calling android `Log.*` functions. The log level is automatically loaded from shared preferences at application startup via `TermuxApplication` and set in the static `Logger.CURRENT_LOG_LEVEL` variable. Changing the log level through the settings activity also changes the log level immediately.
The 4 supported log levels are:
- LOG_LEVEL_OFF which will log nothing.
- LOG_LEVEL_NORMAL which will start logging error, warn and info messages and stacktraces.
- LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG which will start logging debug messages.
- LOG_LEVEL_VERBOSE which will start logging verbose messages.
The default log level is `LOG_LEVEL_NORMAL` which will not log debug or verbose messages. Contributors can add useful log entries at those levels where ever they feel is appropriate so that it allows users and devs to more easily help solve issues or find bugs, specially without having to recompile termux after having to manually add general log entries to the source. DO NOT log data that may have private info of users like command arguments at log levels below debug, like `BackgroundJob` was doing previously.
Logging to file support may be added later, will require log file rotation support and storage permissions.
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