Refactor string removal to make it static

The next step is to move this over to the Utils class.
The ultimate goal is to make use of the duplicate removal code
also in the spell checker as per
Bug: 5175740

Change-Id: Ica36691b843b0713b832c56ffc65e5b2ec427c4a
diff --git a/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/Suggest.java b/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/Suggest.java
index a2d66f3..937457e 100644
--- a/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/Suggest.java
+++ b/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/Suggest.java
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@
         if (typedWord != null) {
             mSuggestions.add(0, typedWordString);
         }
-        removeDupes();
+        removeDupes(mSuggestions);
 
         if (DBG) {
             double normalizedScore = mAutoCorrection.getNormalizedScore();
@@ -453,8 +453,7 @@
         return new SuggestedWords.Builder().addWords(mSuggestions, null);
     }
 
-    private void removeDupes() {
-        final ArrayList<CharSequence> suggestions = mSuggestions;
+    private static void removeDupes(final ArrayList<CharSequence> suggestions) {
         if (suggestions.size() < 2) return;
         int i = 1;
         // Don't cache suggestions.size(), since we may be removing items
@@ -464,7 +463,7 @@
             for (int j = 0; j < i; j++) {
                 CharSequence previous = suggestions.get(j);
                 if (TextUtils.equals(cur, previous)) {
-                    removeFromSuggestions(i);
+                    removeFromSuggestions(suggestions, i);
                     i--;
                     break;
                 }
@@ -473,10 +472,12 @@
         }
     }
 
-    private void removeFromSuggestions(int index) {
-        CharSequence garbage = mSuggestions.remove(index);
+    private static void removeFromSuggestions(final ArrayList<CharSequence> suggestions,
+            final int index) {
+        final CharSequence garbage = suggestions.remove(index);
         if (garbage != null && garbage instanceof StringBuilder) {
-            mStringPool.add(garbage);
+            // TODO: rebase this over the static string builder pool
+            //            mStringPool.add(garbage);
         }
     }