New notification priority and related APIs.
This change introduces a few new bits of data on Notification that will help the Notification Manager and System UI route and display them more intelligently: -> priority: an integer in a predefined range that indicates the app's best guess as to the relative importance (to the user, right now) of that information -> kind: a tag (really, set of tags) indicating the general type of notification (realtime, asynchronous, etc) -> extras: a Bundle of additional key/value pairs associated with this notification (currently @hidden) The notification manager takes these data into account when assigning to each notification a score which is passed with the notification on to the system UI, where it can be used to affect presentation. For example: - Spammy apps (identified explicitly by the user or by some other means) will have their notifications scored very negatively by the notification manager, allowing the UI to suppress them - Notifications of higher score might be shown larger or in a different way - Very important notifications (indicated by a very high score) might interrupt the user during an otherwise important task (videochat, game, etc) Implementation note: This replaces/extends the old internal notion of "priority", which was mostly used to organize ongoings and system notifications at the top of the panel. Change-Id: Ie063dc75f198a68e2b5734a3aa0cacb5aba1ac39
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