Allow UiAutomation to adopt the shell permission indentity
For testing we often need to run shell commands. This can be done today via running a shell command from an instrumentation test started from the shell. However, this requires adding shell commands which are not in the API contract, involve boilerplate code, require string parsing, etc. This change allows an instrumentation started from the shell to adopt the shell UID permission state. As a result one can call APIs protected by permissions normal apps cannot get by are granted to the shell. This enables adding dedicated test APIs protected by signatures permissions granted to the shell. Test: cts-tradefed run cts-dev -m CtsUiAutomationTestCases -t android.app.uiautomation.cts.UiAutomationTest#testAdoptShellPermissions bug:80415658 Change-Id: I4bfd4b475225125512abf80ea98cd8fcacb6a1be
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