From e011b5772c46bea0b78e57f4b29751d5bb8f011a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charles Munger <clm@google.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 15:32:04 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Deprecate AlteredCharSequence

Not used anywhere else in the SDK. Comment indicates it might have been exposed accidentally.

Test: No behavior changes
Bug: 144042891
Change-Id: I79bef5771a33a0cf35637bdc0268dc7d82f74aca
---
 api/current.txt                                 | 12 ++++++------
 core/java/android/text/AlteredCharSequence.java |  4 +++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/api/current.txt b/api/current.txt
index 5404e1a633bd4..444d21d142578 100644
--- a/api/current.txt
+++ b/api/current.txt
@@ -45795,12 +45795,12 @@ package android.telephony.mbms {
 
 package android.text {
 
-  public class AlteredCharSequence implements java.lang.CharSequence android.text.GetChars {
-    method public char charAt(int);
-    method public void getChars(int, int, char[], int);
-    method public int length();
-    method public static android.text.AlteredCharSequence make(CharSequence, char[], int, int);
-    method public CharSequence subSequence(int, int);
+  @Deprecated public class AlteredCharSequence implements java.lang.CharSequence android.text.GetChars {
+    method @Deprecated public char charAt(int);
+    method @Deprecated public void getChars(int, int, char[], int);
+    method @Deprecated public int length();
+    method @Deprecated public static android.text.AlteredCharSequence make(CharSequence, char[], int, int);
+    method @Deprecated public CharSequence subSequence(int, int);
   }
 
   @Deprecated public class AndroidCharacter {
diff --git a/core/java/android/text/AlteredCharSequence.java b/core/java/android/text/AlteredCharSequence.java
index 4cc71fd28e4b1..971a47dba6e80 100644
--- a/core/java/android/text/AlteredCharSequence.java
+++ b/core/java/android/text/AlteredCharSequence.java
@@ -16,12 +16,14 @@
 
 package android.text;
 
-// XXX should this really be in the public API at all?
 /**
  * An AlteredCharSequence is a CharSequence that is largely mirrored from
  * another CharSequence, except that a specified range of characters are
  * mirrored from a different char array instead.
+ *
+ * @deprecated The functionality this class offers is easily implemented outside the framework.
  */
+@Deprecated
 public class AlteredCharSequence
 implements CharSequence, GetChars
 {