[Android][PlatformViews] Flutter 3.44.0 regression: TextureView/OpenGL PlatformView stays blank or freezes on Huawei Android 10 #188303

Steps to reproduce

git clone https://github.com/luskan/flutter_textureview_platform_view.git
cd flutter_textureview_platform_view
/path/to/flutter_3_44_0/bin/flutter run --release

Expected results

The PlatformView displays a continuously rotating OpenGL cube. The frame counter in the upper-left keeps increasing and is visible on screen.

// ...

After upgrading from Flutter 3.41.x to Flutter 3.44.x, an Android PlatformView that contains a native TextureView rendered with EGL/OpenGL no longer displays correctly on a Huawei Android 10 device.

The native renderer continues producing frames, but the Flutter-composited PlatformView area stays blank/white or freezes after a few frames. Flutter widgets outside the PlatformView continue to work.

This affects our production app, where a native OpenGL map is embedded into Flutter through Android PlatformViews.

I also tested with a locally instrumented Flutter 3.44.0 Android embedding around PR #181931. On this Huawei API 29 device, Flutter selects SurfaceTextureSurfaceProducer instead of ImageReaderSurfaceProducer:

hasAndroidHardwareBufferDefect=true sdk=29 manufacturer=HUAWEI brand=HUAWEI model=JNY-LX1 device=HWJNY
createSurfaceProducer lifecycle=resetInBackground useImageReader=false forceGlTextures=false
hasHardwareBufferDefect=true sdk=29
New SurfaceTextureSurfaceProducer ID: 0

The Java-side producer continues to look alive:

getSurface()
scheduleFrame()

The native OpenGL renderer also continues rendering frames, but the PlatformView output on screen remains blank/frozen. This suggests the native renderer itself is not blocked, the problem appears to be in the Flutter/Android PlatformView composition path.

Suspected relation to Huawei ImageReader change

This looks related to:

• Video player on Android 29 device does not play media #166481
• fix-huawei-imagereader-166481 #181931

PR #181931 changed Huawei Android API 29 and below to fall back from ImageReaderSurfaceProducer to
SurfaceTextureSurfaceProducer.

That change fixed video playback on some Huawei devices, but on this Huawei JNY-LX1 it appears to break
PlatformViews that contain a native TextureView rendering with EGL/OpenGL.

I also tested Flutter 3.44.0 with the Huawei fallback from PR #181931 disabled, so this device no longer routes through
SurfaceTextureSurfaceProducer because of hasAndroidHardwareBufferDefect=true.

With that change disabled, the blank/frozen PlatformView problem no longer reproduced on the affected Huawei device.

Actual results

On the Huawei device, the PlatformView area is blank/white or freezes after a few frames. In some runs I saw 0 frames displayed, in others 4 or 5 frames, then the visible output stopped updating.

With Flutter 3.41.9 on the same device, the same repro works.

Reproduces on:

manufacturer: HUAWEI
brand: HUAWEI
model: JNY-LX1
device: HWJNY
Android: 10
Android SDK: 29
hardware: kirin810
platform: orlando

Flutter versions tested:

Working:

Flutter 3.41.9

Broken:

Flutter 3.44.0

Code sample

git clone https://github.com/luskan/flutter_textureview_platform_view.git

This app uses this path:

Flutter PlatformViewLink
 -> AndroidViewSurface
 -> PlatformViewsService.initSurfaceAndroidView
 -> Android PlatformView
 -> FrameLayout
 -> TextureView
 -> EGL/OpenGL ES renderer

The production app uses the same general architecture for its native OpenGL map view.

Screenshots or Video

Logs

flutter_3442_huawei_platformview_freeze.log

[Paste your logs here]

Flutter Doctor output

[✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 3.44.2, on Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS 6.17.0-35-generic, locale en_US.UTF-8) [68ms]
    • Flutter version 3.44.2 on channel stable at /home/marcin/libs/flutter_3_44_2
    • Upstream repository https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git
    • Framework revision c9a6c48423 (11 days ago), 2026-06-10 15:52:41 -0700
    • Engine revision 77e2e94772
    • Dart version 3.12.2
    • DevTools version 2.57.0
    • Feature flags: enable-web, enable-linux-desktop, enable-macos-desktop, enable-windows-desktop, enable-android,
      enable-ios, cli-animations, enable-native-assets, enable-swift-package-manager, omit-legacy-version-file,
      enable-lldb-debugging, enable-uiscene-migration

[✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 36.1.0) [2.0s]
    • Android SDK at /home/marcin/Android/Sdk
    • Emulator version 36.2.12.0 (build_id 14214601) (CL:N/A)
    • Platform android-36, build-tools 36.1.0
    • ANDROID_HOME = /home/marcin/Android/Sdk
    • ANDROID_SDK_ROOT = /home/marcin/Android/Sdk
    • Java binary at: /home/marcin/.local/share/JetBrains/Toolbox/apps/android-studio/jbr/bin/java
      This is the JDK bundled with the latest Android Studio installation on this machine.
      To manually set the JDK path, use: `flutter config --jdk-dir="path/to/jdk"`.
    • Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 21.0.8+-14196175-b1038.72)
    • All Android licenses accepted.

[✓] Chrome - develop for the web [25ms]
    • Chrome at google-chrome

[✓] Linux toolchain - develop for Linux desktop [1,396ms]
    • Ubuntu clang version 18.1.3 (1ubuntu1)
    • cmake version 4.1.2
    • ninja version 1.11.1
    • pkg-config version 1.8.1
    • OpenGL core renderer: Mesa Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2) (X11)
    • OpenGL core version: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 25.2.8-0ubuntu0.24.04.2 (X11)
    • OpenGL core shading language version: 4.60 (X11)
    • OpenGL ES renderer: Mesa Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2) (X11)
    • OpenGL ES version: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 25.2.8-0ubuntu0.24.04.2 (X11)
    • OpenGL ES shading language version: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20 (X11)
    • GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit: yes (X11)
    • GL_EXT_texture_format_BGRA8888: yes (X11)

[✓] Connected device (3 available) [345ms]
    • JNY LX1 (mobile) • EPHUT20211000443 • android-arm64  • Android 10 (API 29)
    • Linux (desktop)  • linux            • linux-x64      • Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS 6.17.0-35-generic
    • Chrome (web)     • chrome           • web-javascript • Google Chrome 149.0.7827.155

[✓] Network resources [412ms]
    • All expected network resources are available.

• No issues found!