
## Background
The Windows runner has a race at startup:
1. **Platform thread**: creates a hidden window
2. **Platform thread**: launches the Flutter engine
3. **UI/Raster threads**: renders the first frame
4. **Platform thread**: Registers a callback to show the window once the next frame has been rendered.
Steps 3 and 4 happen in parallel and it is possible for step 3 to complete before step 4 starts. In this scenario, the next frame callback is never called and the window is never shown.
As a result the `windows_startup_test`'s test, which [verifies that the "show window" callback is called](1f09a8662d/dev/integration_tests/windows_startup_test/windows/runner/flutter_window.cpp (L60-L64)
), can flake if the first frame is rendered before the show window callback has been registered.
## Solution
This change makes the runner schedule a frame after it registers the next frame callback. If step 3 hasn't completed yet, this no-ops as a frame is already scheduled. If step 3 has already completed, a new frame will be rendered, which will call the next frame callback and show the window.
Part of https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/119415
See this thread for alternatives that were considered: https://github.com/flutter/engine/pull/42061#issuecomment-1550080722
Flutter Examples
This directory contains several examples of using Flutter. To run an example,
use flutter run
inside that example's directory. See the getting started
guide to install the flutter
tool.
For additional samples, see the
flutter/samples
repo.
Available examples include:
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Hello, world The hello world app is a minimal Flutter app that shows the text "Hello, world!"
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Flutter gallery The flutter gallery app no longer lives in this repo. Please see the gallery repo.
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Layers The layers vignettes show how to use the various layers in the Flutter framework. For details, see the layers README.
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Platform Channel The platform channel app demonstrates how to connect a Flutter app to platform-specific APIs. For documentation, see https://flutter.dev/platform-channels/.
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Platform Channel Swift The platform channel swift app is the same as platform channel but the iOS version is in Swift and there is no Android version.
Notes
Note on Gradle wrapper files in .gitignore
:
Gradle wrapper files should normally be checked into source control. The example projects don't do that to avoid having several copies of the wrapper binary in the Flutter repo. Instead, the Gradle wrapper is injected by Flutter tooling, and the wrapper files are .gitignore'd to avoid making the Flutter repository dirty as a side effect of running the examples.