What is (s/g)etFreezesText in TextView?

Question

As of recently (probably as a new SDK feature), when I try to pull text from a Textview, I first get the method getFreezesText(), instead of

Answer 1

android:freezesText="true" will freeze your last completed text. But what is the last completed Text? Suppose you are showing a textView which is changing after every 2 seconds everything is okay until you rotate the screen and if you rotate the screen the text inside textView will not be visible, here freezesText comes, it will freeze the last showed text (last completed Text).