This patch allows embedders to split the Flutter layer tree into multiple
chunks. These chunks are meant to be composed one on top of another. This gives
embedders a chance to interleave their own contents between these chunks.
The Flutter embedder API already provides hooks for the specification of
textures for the Flutter engine to compose within its own hierarchy (for camera
feeds, video, etc..). However, not all embedders can render the contents of such
sources into textures the Flutter engine can accept. Moreover, this composition
model may have overheads that are non-trivial for certain use cases. In such
cases, the embedder may choose to specify multiple render target for Flutter to
render into instead of just one.
The use of this API allows embedders to perform composition very similar to the
iOS embedder. This composition model is used on that platform for the embedding
of UIKit view such and web view and map views within the Flutter hierarchy.
However, do note that iOS also has threading configurations that are currently
not available to custom embedders.
The embedder API updates in this patch are ABI stable and existing embedders
will continue to work are normal. For embedders that want to enable this
composition mode, the API is designed to make it easy to opt into the same in an
incremental manner.
Rendering of contents into the “root” rendering surface remains unchanged.
However, now the application can push “platform views” via a scene builder.
These platform views need to handled by a FlutterCompositor specified in a new
field at the end of the FlutterProjectArgs struct.
When a new platform view in introduced within the layer tree, the compositor
will ask the embedder to create a new render target for that platform view.
Render targets can currently be OpenGL framebuffers, OpenGL textures or software
buffers. The type of the render target returned by the embedder must be
compatible with the root render surface. That is, if the root render surface is
an OpenGL framebuffer, the render target for each platform view must either be a
texture or a framebuffer in the same OpenGL context. New render target types as
well as root renderers for newer APIs like Metal & Vulkan can and will be added
in the future. The addition of these APIs will be done in an ABI & API stable
manner.
As Flutter renders frames, it gives the embedder a callback with information
about the position of the various platform views in the effective hierarchy.
The embedder is then meant to put the contents of the render targets that it
setup and had previously given to the engine onto the screen (of course
interleaving the contents of the platform views).
Unit-tests have been added that test not only the structure and properties of
layer hierarchy given to the compositor, but also the contents of the texels
rendered by a test compositor using both the OpenGL and software rendering
backends.
Fixes b/132812775
Fixesflutter/flutter#35410
For https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/33807
We still need to make layers' children immutable for full immutability.
That will require us to change the SceneBuilder API to build the layer
bottom up instead of top down (post-order traversal instead of pre-order
traversal).
Using it, a Flutter app can monitor missing frames in the release mode, and a custom Flutter runner (e.g., Fuchsia) can add a custom FrameRasterizedCallback.
Related issues:
https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/26154https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/31444https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/32447
Need review as soon as possible so we can merge this before the end of May to catch the milestone.
Tests added:
* NoNeedToReportTimingsByDefault
* NeedsReportTimingsIsSetWithCallback
* ReportTimingsIsCalled
* FrameRasterizedCallbackIsCalled
* FrameTimingSetsAndGetsProperly
* onReportTimings preserves callback zone
* FrameTiming.toString has the correct format
This will need a manual engine roll as the TestWindow defined in the framework needs to implement onReportTimings.
The GetMapping calls removed in this patch had the same code and had to be repeated across different test harnesses as well as in dart_snapshot.cc. Just make this a factory method so the code is less verbose.
Some components in the Flutter engine were derived from the forked blink codebase. While the forked components have either been removed or rewritten, the use of the blink namespace has mostly (and inconsistently) remained. This renames the blink namesapce to flutter for consistency. There are no functional changes in this patch.
Chinmay Garde
Dan Field
liyuqian
Chinmay Garde