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Add documentation for TV App common-api and content-app (#27423)
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# Matter tv app common-api

The tv-app common-api module defines the interface to interact with the Matter
agent service for the content apps. This module defines the AIDL interfaces,
clusters and command abstractions accessible. It also defines various constants
and intent field definitions that would be used by the content app while
interacting with the Matter SDK. The interface provided by this module helps
content app to register dynamic endpoints as well as report any attribute
changes to the SDK.

## Permissions needed

To utilize the Matter agent interface the partner apps need to

- Query and bind themselves to a service that handles
`com.matter.tv.app.api.action.MatterAppAgent` action
- The host process should hold the
`com.matter.tv.app.api.permission.SEND_DATA` permission
- To bind with the Matter app agent service, the client should hold the
`com.matter.tv.app.api.permission.BIND_SERVICE_PERMISSION` permission

## Matter app agent APIs

The Matter app agent service exposes the following interface

- `setSupportedClusters`
- This API allows partners to report clusters dynamically to the Matter
agent
- This API is not incremental and on each API call we should report the
full set of clusters - any clusters that are omitted in the latest API
call that were added previously will be removed
- The above behavior does not impact static clusters declared in app
resources and they will not be removed
- Dynamic cluster can be used to override and hide a static cluster based
on cluster name
- `reportAttributeChange`
- This API allows reporting changes to attributes by the content app
- It takes in the cluster ID and attribute ID for which the attribute
change is reported

## Cluster and Attribute IDs

The common API package defines commonly used cluster IDs as well as
corresponding Attribute ID's through `com.matter.tv.app.api.Clusters`. The
common-api provides a quick way to refer to different clusters defined by the
Matter spec relevant for media casting, as well as attributes and commands
associated with each one.

## Intents

The supported intents are defined under the
`com.matter.tv.app.api.MatterIntentConstants`. This helper class defines the
relevant intents used while interacting with the Matter app agent service. This
includes the android permission strings to as well as command and attribute
intent fields to be used.
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# Content App

This module provides an example of a TV Content App that supports Matter
casting. The content app can register its supported clusters with the Matter SDK
as well as receive any incoming commands and provide responses.

### Specifying the permissions

The content app needs to bind with the Matter agent service to start receiving
commands as well as register its supported clusters. To bind with the service,
the content app need to add the following permissions to their manifest file

```xml
<uses-permission android:name="com.matter.tv.app.api.permission.BIND_SERVICE_PERMISSION"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES" tools:ignore="QueryAllPackagesPermission"/>
```

The permission string is defined within the `common-api` module as
`PERMISSION_MATTER_AGENT_BIND`

`AndroidManifest.xml` can be used as a good reference point

### Registering a command receiver

The content app should register itself as a receiver in order to get any
incoming matter commands that needs to be handled. To receive commands from
matter stack, the app will need to register a receiver instance that listens for
`MATTER_COMMAND` intents and have permission to send data via Matter API. Here
is a sample snippet

```xml
<!-- Intent action for receiving an Matter directive-->
<receiver
android:name=".receiver.MatterCommandReceiver"
android:permission="com.matter.tv.app.api.permission.SEND_DATA"
android:enabled="true"
android:exported="true">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="com.matter.tv.app.api.action.MATTER_COMMAND" />
</intent-filter>
</receiver>
```

In order to send data and respond to commands we need to include the permission
`com.matter.tv.app.api.permission.SEND_DATA` for the receiver as above.

### Structuring the application

The first step is to register for appropriate permissions as well as an intent
receiver as described in the steps above. Once the application is started, it
can bind to the Matter agent service. Refer to `MatterAgentClient.java` as an
example.

Once the content app binds to the Matter agent, it can register all its dynamic
endpoints and supported clusters through the `reportClusters` API call.

```cpp
executorService.execute(() -> matterAgentClient.reportClusters(supportedClustersRequest));
```

Whenever the content app wants to report an attribute change, it can leverage
the `reportAttributeChange` on the matter agent to notify the SDK.

Upon receiving a command from the Matter SDK - an intent of type
`ACTION_MATTER_COMMAND` will be received by the BroadcastReceiver implemented by
the content app. The intent would have the command id, cluster id as well as
corresponding payload data. Once the command handler is called, a response for
the command needs to be sent. An example for a receiver can be found within
`MatterCommandReceiver.java`. All the internal fields within the intents can be
found under `MatterIntentConstants` provided through the `common-api`.

### Example files

- `MainActivity` - a sample content app
- `MatterCommandReceiver` - a receiver for incoming commands
- `MatterAgentClient` - a client that binds and manages connection to matter
app agent service

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