Add support for Onyx Boox Note Air 5C, Fix Onyx Boox black screen on wake after font size change#14956
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On some Onyx Boox devices, the SurfaceView surface is not recreated after the rapid activity cycling that the Boox system performs on wake, leaving android.app.window permanently nil. This caused a black screen after font size change + sleep + wake. The SurfaceView with setZOrderOnTop(true) was introduced for NGL4/Tolino devices. The Onyx Qualcomm EPD API (View.refreshScreen) does not require a SurfaceView — einkUpdate() already falls back to the DecorView content view when no SurfaceView exists. Setting OnyxEPDController.needsView()=false makes Onyx devices use NativeActivity's default DecorView surface, which follows the standard activity lifecycle and correctly survives wake. Fixes koreader#12445
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…wake after font size change (koreader#14956) On some Onyx Boox devices, the SurfaceView surface is not recreated after the rapid activity cycling that the Boox system performs on wake, leaving android.app.window permanently nil. This caused a black screen after font size change + sleep + wake. The SurfaceView with setZOrderOnTop(true) was introduced for NGL4/Tolino devices. The Onyx Qualcomm EPD API (View.refreshScreen) does not require a SurfaceView — einkUpdate() already falls back to the DecorView content view when no SurfaceView exists. Setting OnyxEPDController.needsView()=false makes Onyx devices use NativeActivity's default DecorView surface, which follows the standard activity lifecycle and correctly survives wake. Fixes koreader#12445
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Fixes #12445
On some Onyx Boox devices (confirmed on Palma 2), changing font size and then sleeping/waking causes a permanent black screen. The root cause is that Boox firmware performs rapid lifecycle cycling (RESUME/PAUSE/STOP) on wake, and the SurfaceView overlay surface is not recreated during this process;
INIT_WINDOWnever fires, leaving android.app.window` permanently nil.This updates the android-luajit-launcher submodule to include koreader/android-luajit-launcher#579, which changes
OnyxEPDController.needsView()to returnfalse. The Onyx Qualcomm EPD API usesView.refreshScreen()via reflection, which works on any View; it does not require a SurfaceView. Using the NativeActivity's default DecorView surface instead correctly survives the Boox wake lifecycle.This change is