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Moving prepareToDraw after the synchronous raster recording phase ensures that the UI state is captured immediately. This prevents potential race conditions in Skwasm where resizing the surface immediately before measuring and painting could lead to uninitialized Skia resources or incorrect rendering states.

By deferring physical surface sizing until after the pictures are recorded, we also allow asynchronous surface preparation to better overlap with other work, improving overall frame performance.

Fixes #182354

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Moving prepareToDraw after the synchronous raster recording phase ensures that
the UI state is captured immediately. This prevents potential race
conditions in Skwasm where resizing the surface immediately before measuring
and painting could lead to uninitialized Skia resources or incorrect
rendering states.

By deferring physical surface sizing until after the pictures are recorded, we
also allow asynchronous surface preparation to better overlap with other work,
improving overall frame performance.

Fixes flutter#182354
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This pull request refactors the drawing logic in ViewRasterizer by moving the prepareToDraw call to after the compositorFrame.raster call. This change is aimed at improving concurrency and stability. The PR includes two new test files to validate the change: rasterizer_order_test.dart verifies the correct sequence of operations during rasterization, and rasterizer_resize_golden_test.dart adds a golden test to ensure rendering is correct after resizing the view.

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2026-03-18 [email protected] fix(web): handle asynchronously disposed platform views (flutter/flutter#183666)
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2026-03-17 [email protected] fix(web): fix crash in Skwasm when transferring non-transferable texture sources (flutter/flutter#183799)
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2026-03-17 [email protected] fix(web_ui): move prepareToDraw after raster to improve concurrency and stability (flutter/flutter#183791)
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