Adding a new abstract method to the AssetManager interface will break backward compatibility for any custom implementations of AssetManager (as they will fail to compile until they implement reloadAsset).

To maintain backward compatibility, consider making reloadAsset a default method. You can either:

1. Provide a default implementation that performs the basic reload (though it won't be able to notify listeners since the interface doesn't expose them):

public default <T> T reloadAsset(AssetKey<T> key) {
    if (key == null) {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("key cannot be null");
    }
    deleteFromCache(key);
    return loadAsset(key);
}

2. Or simply throw an UnsupportedOperationException:

public default <T> T reloadAsset(AssetKey<T> key) {
    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("reloadAsset is not supported by this AssetManager implementation");
}