Asynchronous TextureView

[ivovandongen]

Brings back the (deprecated) TextureView option, removed in #9576. Built on top of the a-synchronous rendering with a dedicated render thread to unblock the main thread as much as possible.

TODO:

• Cleanup code
• Cleanup on exit
• Handle lost context
• Handle bad surface
• Life-cycle handling:
  • pause/resume
  • destroy
  • multi-window
  • rotate
• Test activities
  • Debug
  • Transform
  • Resize
• un-deprecate

[ivovandongen]

@tobrun @zugaldia Do we still want to mark this as deprecated now that we're bringing it back?

[zugaldia]

Do we still want to mark this as deprecated now that we're bringing it back?

Capturing chat, moving forward:

• We're gonna remove the deprecated tag from TextureView mode and commit to maintaining this mode.
• We're gonna update the current docs to reflect that regular asynchronous rendering (non-TextureView) is still the recommended mode to render the map as it's more performant. Additionally, we'd like to include common scenarios where TextureView could be a good fallback option.

[ivovandongen]

@tobrun Tested this on the devices I have (Pixel and Galaxy Nexus). Needs a more thorough review/test, but otherwise good to go.

[tobrun]

Looking great, the new abstraction is really clean. Tested on 3 devices without an issue. Will be running additional tests later when cherry-picked to the release branch.

[zugaldia]

🎉

I still see a couple of "deprecated" messages in the comments, could we remove those before merging?

[ivovandongen]

I still see a couple of "deprecated" messages in the comments, could we remove those before merging?

Sorry, think I got them all now @zugaldia