AssociationRequest
  public
  
  final
  
  class
  AssociationRequest
  
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| java.lang.Object | |
| ↳ | android.companion.AssociationRequest | 
A request for the user to select a companion device to associate with.
 You can optionally set filters for which devices to show to the
 user to select from.
 The exact type and fields of the filter you can set depend on the
 medium type. See Builder's static factory methods for specific protocols that are
 supported.
 You can also set single device to request a popup with single
 device to be shown instead of a list to choose from
Summary
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        class | AssociationRequest.BuilderA builder for  | 
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| String | DEVICE_PROFILE_APP_STREAMINGDevice profile: a virtual display capable of rendering Android applications, and sending back input events. | 
| String | DEVICE_PROFILE_AUTOMOTIVE_PROJECTIONDevice profile: Android Automotive Projection
 Only applications that have been granted
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| String | DEVICE_PROFILE_COMPUTERDevice profile: Allows the companion app to access notification, recent photos and media for computer cross-device features. | 
| String | DEVICE_PROFILE_GLASSESDevice profile: glasses. | 
| String | DEVICE_PROFILE_NEARBY_DEVICE_STREAMINGDevice profile: a virtual device capable of rendering content from an Android host to a nearby device. | 
| String | DEVICE_PROFILE_WATCHDevice profile: watch. | 
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    public
    static
    final
    Creator<AssociationRequest> | CREATOR
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        int | 
      describeContents()
      Describe the kinds of special objects contained in this Parcelable instance's marshaled representation. | 
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        boolean | 
      equals(Object o)
      Indicates whether some other object is "equal to" this one. | 
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        Icon | 
      getDeviceIcon()
      Get the device icon of the self-managed association request. | 
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        String | 
      getDeviceProfile()
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        CharSequence | 
      getDisplayName()
      The Display name of the device to be shown in the CDM confirmation UI. | 
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        boolean | 
      isForceConfirmation()
      Indicates whether the application requires the  | 
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        boolean | 
      isSelfManaged()
      Whether the association is to be managed by the companion application. | 
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        boolean | 
      isSingleDevice()
      Whether only a single device should match the provided filter. | 
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        String | 
      toString()
      Returns a string representation of the object. | 
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        void | 
      writeToParcel(Parcel dest, int flags)
      Flatten this object in to a Parcel. | 
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Constants
DEVICE_PROFILE_APP_STREAMING
public static final String DEVICE_PROFILE_APP_STREAMING
Device profile: a virtual display capable of rendering Android applications, and sending back input events.
 Only applications that have been granted
 Manifest.permission.REQUEST_COMPANION_PROFILE_APP_STREAMING are allowed to
 request to be associated with such devices.
 
 Requires Manifest.permission.REQUEST_COMPANION_PROFILE_APP_STREAMING
Constant Value: "android.app.role.COMPANION_DEVICE_APP_STREAMING"
DEVICE_PROFILE_AUTOMOTIVE_PROJECTION
public static final String DEVICE_PROFILE_AUTOMOTIVE_PROJECTION
Device profile: Android Automotive Projection
 Only applications that have been granted
 Manifest.permission.REQUEST_COMPANION_PROFILE_AUTOMOTIVE_PROJECTION are
 allowed to request to be associated with such devices.
 
 Requires Manifest.permission.REQUEST_COMPANION_PROFILE_AUTOMOTIVE_PROJECTION
Constant Value: "android.app.role.SYSTEM_AUTOMOTIVE_PROJECTION"
DEVICE_PROFILE_COMPUTER
public static final String DEVICE_PROFILE_COMPUTER
Device profile: Allows the companion app to access notification, recent photos and media for
 computer cross-device features.
 Only applications that have been granted
 Manifest.permission.REQUEST_COMPANION_PROFILE_COMPUTER are allowed to
 request to be associated with such devices.
 
 Requires Manifest.permission.REQUEST_COMPANION_PROFILE_COMPUTER
Constant Value: "android.app.role.COMPANION_DEVICE_COMPUTER"
DEVICE_PROFILE_GLASSES
public static final String DEVICE_PROFILE_GLASSES
Device profile: glasses.
 If specified, the current request may have a modified UI to highlight that the device being
 set up is a glasses device, and some extra permissions may be granted to the app
 as a result.
 Using it requires declaring uses-permission
 Manifest.permission.REQUEST_COMPANION_PROFILE_GLASSES in the manifest.
 
 Requires Manifest.permission.REQUEST_COMPANION_PROFILE_GLASSES
Constant Value: "android.app.role.COMPANION_DEVICE_GLASSES"
DEVICE_PROFILE_NEARBY_DEVICE_STREAMING
public static final String DEVICE_PROFILE_NEARBY_DEVICE_STREAMING
Device profile: a virtual device capable of rendering content from an Android host to a nearby device.
 Only applications that have been granted
 Manifest.permission.REQUEST_COMPANION_PROFILE_NEARBY_DEVICE_STREAMING
 are allowed to request to be associated with such devices.
 
 Requires Manifest.permission.REQUEST_COMPANION_PROFILE_NEARBY_DEVICE_STREAMING
Constant Value: "android.app.role.COMPANION_DEVICE_NEARBY_DEVICE_STREAMING"
DEVICE_PROFILE_WATCH
public static final String DEVICE_PROFILE_WATCH
Device profile: watch.
 If specified, the current request may have a modified UI to highlight that the device being
 set up is a specific kind of device, and some extra permissions may be granted to the app
 as a result.
 Using it requires declaring uses-permission
 Manifest.permission.REQUEST_COMPANION_PROFILE_WATCH in the manifest.
 Learn more
 about device profiles.
Constant Value: "android.app.role.COMPANION_DEVICE_WATCH"
Fields
Public methods
describeContents
public int describeContents ()
Describe the kinds of special objects contained in this Parcelable
 instance's marshaled representation. For example, if the object will
 include a file descriptor in the output of writeToParcel(android.os.Parcel, int),
 the return value of this method must include the
 CONTENTS_FILE_DESCRIPTOR bit.
| Returns | |
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| int | a bitmask indicating the set of special object types marshaled
 by this Parcelable object instance.
 Value is either 0orCONTENTS_FILE_DESCRIPTOR | 
equals
public boolean equals (Object o)
Indicates whether some other object is "equal to" this one.
 The equals method implements an equivalence relation
 on non-null object references:
 
- It is reflexive: for any non-null reference value
     x,x.equals(x)should returntrue.
- It is symmetric: for any non-null reference values
     xandy,x.equals(y)should returntrueif and only ify.equals(x)returnstrue.
- It is transitive: for any non-null reference values
     x,y, andz, ifx.equals(y)returnstrueandy.equals(z)returnstrue, thenx.equals(z)should returntrue.
- It is consistent: for any non-null reference values
     xandy, multiple invocations ofx.equals(y)consistently returntrueor consistently returnfalse, provided no information used inequalscomparisons on the objects is modified.
- For any non-null reference value x,x.equals(null)should returnfalse.
An equivalence relation partitions the elements it operates on into equivalence classes; all the members of an equivalence class are equal to each other. Members of an equivalence class are substitutable for each other, at least for some purposes.
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| o | Object: This value may benull. | 
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| boolean | trueif this object is the same as the obj
          argument;falseotherwise. | 
getDeviceIcon
public Icon getDeviceIcon ()
Get the device icon of the self-managed association request.
| Returns | |
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| Icon | the device icon, or nullif no device icon has been set. | 
getDeviceProfile
public String getDeviceProfile ()
| Returns | |
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| String | profile of the companion device.
 This value may be null.
 Value isDEVICE_PROFILE_WATCH,DEVICE_PROFILE_COMPUTER,DEVICE_PROFILE_AUTOMOTIVE_PROJECTION,DEVICE_PROFILE_APP_STREAMING,DEVICE_PROFILE_GLASSES,DEVICE_PROFILE_NEARBY_DEVICE_STREAMING, or android.companion.AssociationRequest.DEVICE_PROFILE_WEARABLE_SENSING | 
getDisplayName
public CharSequence getDisplayName ()
The Display name of the device to be shown in the CDM confirmation UI. Must be non-null for "self-managed" association.
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| CharSequence | |
isForceConfirmation
public boolean isForceConfirmation ()
Indicates whether the application requires the CompanionDeviceManager service to
 collect an explicit confirmation from the user before creating an association, even if
 such confirmation is not required from the service's perspective.
| Returns | |
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| boolean | |
isSelfManaged
public boolean isSelfManaged ()
Whether the association is to be managed by the companion application.
| Returns | |
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| boolean | |
isSingleDevice
public boolean isSingleDevice ()
Whether only a single device should match the provided filter.
 When scanning for a single device with a specific BluetoothDeviceFilter mac
 address, bonded devices are also searched among. This allows to obtain the necessary app
 privileges even if the device is already paired.
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| boolean | |
toString
public String toString ()
Returns a string representation of the object.
| Returns | |
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| String | a string representation of the object. | 
writeToParcel
public void writeToParcel (Parcel dest, int flags)
Flatten this object in to a Parcel.
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| dest | Parcel: This value cannot benull. | 
| flags | int: Additional flags about how the object should be written.
 May be 0 orParcelable.PARCELABLE_WRITE_RETURN_VALUE.
 Value is either0or a combination ofParcelable.PARCELABLE_WRITE_RETURN_VALUE, and android.os.Parcelable.PARCELABLE_ELIDE_DUPLICATES | 
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