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Balamurali Pandranki ef42f9db2d gpui_wgpu: Add surface lifecycle methods for mobile platforms (#50815)
## Summary

- Add `unconfigure_surface()` and `replace_surface()` methods to
`WgpuRenderer` for mobile platform window lifecycle management
- Prefer `PresentMode::Mailbox` (triple-buffering) over `Fifo` to avoid
blocking during lifecycle transitions
- Early return in `draw()` when surface is unconfigured to prevent
driver hangs

## Motivation

On Android, the native window (`ANativeWindow`) is destroyed when the
app goes to the background and recreated when it returns to the
foreground. The same happens during orientation changes. Without surface
lifecycle methods, the only option is to destroy the entire
`WgpuRenderer` and create a new one on resume.

The problem: GPUI's scene cache holds `AtlasTextureId` references from
the old renderer's atlas. A new renderer has an empty atlas, so those
cached IDs cause index-out-of-bounds panics.

The fix: Keep the renderer (device, queue, atlas, pipelines) alive
across surface destruction. Only the wgpu `Surface` needs to be
replaced.

### `unconfigure_surface()`
Marks the surface as unconfigured so `draw()` skips rendering via the
existing `surface_configured` guard. Drops intermediate textures that
reference the old surface dimensions. The renderer stays fully alive.

### `replace_surface()`
Creates a new `wgpu::Surface` from fresh window handles using the
**same** `wgpu::Instance` that created the original adapter/device.
Reconfigures the surface and marks it as configured so rendering
resumes. All cached atlas textures remain valid.

### PresentMode::Mailbox
`Fifo` (VSync) blocks in `get_current_texture()` and can deadlock if the
compositor is frozen during a lifecycle transition (e.g.
`TerminateWindow` → `InitWindow` on Android). Mailbox (triple-buffering)
avoids this. Falls back to `AutoNoVsync` → `Fifo` if unsupported.

### draw() early return
Some drivers (notably Adreno) block indefinitely when acquiring a
texture from an unconfigured surface. The early return prevents this.

## Context

This is needed by
[gpui-mobile](https://github.com/itsbalamurali/gpui-mobile), a project
bringing GPUI to Android and iOS. The Android implementation needs these
methods to handle:

1. **Background/foreground transitions** — `TerminateWindow` destroys
the native window, `InitWindow` recreates it
2. **Orientation changes** — Surface is destroyed and recreated with new
dimensions
3. **Split-screen transitions** — Similar surface recreation

Without this change, we maintain a local fork of `gpui_wgpu` with just
these additions. Upstreaming them would let mobile platform
implementations use the official crate directly.

## Test plan

- [x] Tested on Android (Motorola, Adreno 720 GPU) — 3 consecutive
background/foreground cycles, zero panics, atlas textures preserved
- [x] Tested orientation changes (portrait→landscape→portrait) — surface
replacement completed in <40ms per rotation
- [x] Verified `draw()` correctly skips rendering when surface is
unconfigured
- [x] Verified no regression on desktop — methods are additive, existing
code paths unchanged
- [x] PresentMode fallback chain works on devices that don't support
Mailbox

## Release Notes

- N/A
2026-03-31 13:16:53 +00:00
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