Black screen on Android Emulator

[itsJoKr]

Steps to Reproduce

Freshly installed Android Studio. I tried to run my app on Android emulator but my app fails to render and I get a black screen. When I connect my real device, everything works fine. iOS simulator also works fine. Also, the default "new project" flutter app works fine on Android emulator! Tested on Android O and M emulators.

When the app is opening, I get this black box on the bottom-left corner for half a second and after that, the whole screen goes black. If I keep clicking on the screen, it often keeps flashing again with this same black box.

Logs

There are no any errors in flutter run logs. But when the screen is flashing I get this log, not sure if helpful: D/skia ( 4813): OpList failed to instantiate.

Here are the verbose logs: https://hastebin.com/ehojeqitil.sql

Flutter Doctor

[✓] Flutter (on Mac OS X 10.12.6 16G1036, locale en-US, channel alpha)
• Flutter at /Users/jokr/Documents/flutter/flutter
• Framework revision e8aa40e (4 weeks ago), 2017-10-17 15:42:40 -0700
• Engine revision 7c41428
• Tools Dart version 1.25.0-dev.11.0

[✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK 27.0.1)
• Android SDK at /Users/jokr/Library/Android/sdk
• Platform android-27, build-tools 27.0.1
• Java binary at: /Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents/jre/jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java
• Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_152-release-915-b08)

[✓] iOS toolchain - develop for iOS devices (Xcode 9.1)
• Xcode at /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
• Xcode 9.1, Build version 9B55
• ios-deploy 1.9.2
• CocoaPods version 1.3.1

[✓] Android Studio (version 3.0)
• Android Studio at /Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents
• Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_152-release-915-b08)

[✓] IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition (version 2017.2.5)
• Flutter plugin version 19.0
• Dart plugin version 172.4343.25

[✓] Connected devices
• Android SDK built for x86 64 • emulator-5554 • android-x64 • Android 6.0 (API 23) (emulator)
• iPhone 7 • A4A35184-4527-499F-B58A-66D0EF65A193 • ios • iOS 11.1 (simulator)
• iPhone X • E39C9791-6662-43FE-B77F-4DFACEECBEE3 • ios • iOS 11.1 (simulator)

EDIT: Here's the repo if anyone is interested: https://github.com/itsJoKr/iOS4Android

[itsJoKr]

Fixed by adding --enable-software-rendering. Found here: #12428

[eseidelGoogle]

Using --enable-software-rendering should not be required.

We've had many reports like this. e.g. #11947 #11484 #10617

@741g from the android emulator team was able to help us with a previous time this occurred. I thought we had fixed all these, but presumably not.

I'm not sure how we should be debugging these in the wild?

[741g]

This could be a new, different breakage. It doesn't look like a black screen error, rather something else is going wrong. I'll look into it.

[eseidelGoogle]

The "OpList fails to instantiate" error could just be a Skia regression? See also #12980 and #13018 which mention that error. FYI @chinmaygarde

[itsJoKr]

Just to add. Usually, these three lines will be logged many times, especially when I try clicking and then screen starts to flash.

[ ] D/EGL_emulation( 4325): eglMakeCurrent: 0xa1299b00: ver 2 0 (tinfo 0xad08b000)
[ ] D/skia ( 4325): OpList failed to instantiate.
[ +15 ms] I/chatty ( 4325): uid=10083(u0_a83) gpu_thread identical 2 lines

[741g]

The eglMakeCurrent ver there gives us a clue as to which GLES version is used on the emulator; it's not indicative of an error in the emulator driver.

OpList failed to instantiate, however, could be.

[brianosman]

Wondering if this was before/after flutter/engine@e03cab3 was landed in the engine?

[eseidelGoogle]

The flutter doctor output in the original report shows using an flutter/engine which is about a month old. flutter/engine@7c4142808c

[itsJoKr]

@brianosman @eseidel

I've switched the channel to master and upgraded flutter. I don't see black screen issue anymore on the same project.

[eseidelGoogle]

Fantastic!