Merge "Deprecate AlteredCharSequence" am: ea4916dac7

am: cb90a87d2e

Change-Id: I55863aae50a20c17b18e25bbfda318eb4efe09d3

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/api/current.txt b/api/current.txt
index bad43c790050..c10b2b8ecda8 100644
--- a/api/current.txt
+++ b/api/current.txt
@@ -46069,12 +46069,12 @@ 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 4cc71fd28e4b..971a47dba6e8 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
 {