WIP: Implement an Android view in Rust

This will be a library that can be reused to implement an Android view in Rust. Things that will distinguish it from android-activity:

• No C++ code.
• Meant to be usable for both pure-Rust Android applications and embedding Rust widgets in existing applications.
• Event handlers and other view callbacks run directly on the UI thread; there is no sending events to a separate Rust event loop thread.
• This crate intends to stick as close as possible to the Android framework. This will be especially important for text input support.

Building and running the demos

Common setup

export ANDROID_NDK_HOME="path/to/ndk"
export ANDROID_HOME="path/to/sdk"

rustup target add aarch64-linux-android
cargo install cargo-ndk

Simple editor demo

cargo ndk -t arm64-v8a -o app/src/main/jniLibs/ build -p android-view-demo
./gradlew build
./gradlew installDebug
adb shell am start -n org.linebender.android.viewdemo/.DemoActivity
# To view logs:
adb shell run-as org.linebender.android.viewdemo logcat -v color

Masonry demo

cargo ndk -t arm64-v8a -o masonry-app/src/main/jniLibs/ build -p android-view-masonry-demo
./gradlew build
./gradlew installDebug
adb shell am start -n org.linebender.android.masonrydemo/.DemoActivity
# To view logs:
adb shell run-as org.linebender.android.masonrydemo logcat -v color

Open questions

• Do we need to be able to handle the view being reattached to a window after it has been detached? If not, then onDetachedFromWindow is the logical place to sever the connection between Java and native.