GestureRecognizer cleanup
Summary
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                  OneSequenceGestureRecognizer.addAllowedPointer() was changed to take a
                  PointerDownEvent, like its superclass. Previously, it accepted the more
                  general PointerEvent type, which was incorrect.
                
Context
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                  The framework only ever passes PointerDownEvent objects to
                  addAllowedPointer(). Declaring
                  OneSequenceGestureRecognizer.addAllowedPointer() to take the more general
                  type was confusing, and caused OneSequenceGestureRecognizer subclasses to
                  have to cast their argument to the right class.
                
Description of change
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                  The previous declaration forced OneSequenceGestureRecognizer descendants to
                  override addAllowedPointer() like so:
                
class CustomGestureRecognizer extends ScaleGestureRecognizer {
  @override
  void addAllowedPointer(PointerEvent event) {
    // insert custom handling of event here...
    super.addAllowedPointer(event);
  }
}
                    
                    
                    
                  The new method declaration will cause this code to fail with the following error message:
super.addAllowedPointer(event); The argument type 'PointerEvent' can't be assigned to the parameter type 'PointerDownEvent'.
                                #argument_type_not_assignable
                    
                    
                    
                  Migration guide
#Code before migration:
class CustomGestureRecognizer extends ScaleGestureRecognizer {
  @override
  void addAllowedPointer(PointerEvent event) {
    // insert custom handling of event here...
    super.addAllowedPointer(event);
  }
}
                    
                    
                    
                  Code after migration:
class CustomGestureRecognizer extends ScaleGestureRecognizer {
  @override
  void addAllowedPointer(PointerDownEvent event) {
    // insert custom handling of event here...
    super.addAllowedPointer(event);
  }
}
                    
                    
                    
                  Timeline
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                  Landed in version: 2.3.0-13.0.pre
                  In stable release: 2.5
                
References
#API documentation:
Relevant PR:
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