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[Impeller] Enable ETC2/ASTC LDR/BC texture compression features at Vulkan device creation - #189303

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Description

Enable textureCompressionETC2, textureCompressionASTC_LDR, and textureCompressionBC core Vulkan 1.0 features at device creation in CapabilitiesVK::GetEnabledDeviceFeatures.

These three features were read back in SetPhysicalDevice (~line 670) from enabled_features, but never requested in GetEnabledDeviceFeatures — so the capability query always returned false on every Android Vulkan device, regardless of hardware support.

This was a three-line omission in #187077, which wired the read-back on all three backends (Vulkan/GLES/Metal) but only enabled the features on GLES and Metal. ASTC HDR was already correctly enabled via VK_EXT_texture_compression_astc_hdr.

The fix mirrors the existing samplerAnisotropy pattern in the same "Base features" block.

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Fixes #189107

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This change enables features that are already supported by the hardware — it simply requests them at device creation so the existing read-back reflects real capability. No new tests are needed; existing capabilities_vk_unittests cover the feature chain plumbing.

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This pull request updates CapabilitiesVK::GetEnabledDeviceFeatures in capabilities_vk.cc to explicitly request block-compressed texture format support (textureCompressionETC2, textureCompressionASTC_LDR, and textureCompressionBC) during Vulkan device creation when available. There are no review comments, and I have no feedback to provide.

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Code LGTM, but we should have tests for this. The description says "existing capabilities_vk_unittests cover the feature chain plumbing", but there is no capabilities_vk_unittests file.

I think we'd want something similar to

TEST(CapabilitiesVKTest, ContextInitializesWithNoStencilFormat) {
, where we mock a physical device to support or not support texture compression, and then verify that the reported capabilities are what we expect.

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Thanks for the added tests. Please update the branch to head to fix the ci validation issue: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/pull/189303/checks?check_run_id=90352478288

…lkan device creation

The read-back in SetPhysicalDevice checks enabled_features for
textureCompressionETC2, textureCompressionASTC_LDR, and
textureCompressionBC, but GetEnabledDeviceFeatures never requested
these core Vulkan 1.0 features at device creation. As a result,
flutter_gpu always reports no compressed texture support on Android
Vulkan devices, regardless of hardware capability.

This was a three-line omission in PR flutter#187077 which wired the
read-back on all three backends but only enabled the features on
GLES and Metal. ASTC HDR was already correctly enabled via
VK_EXT_texture_compression_astc_hdr.

Mirror the existing samplerAnisotropy pattern: request each feature
if supported, so the read-back reflects real hardware support.

Fixes flutter#189107
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…pport

The mock device now advertises the core textureCompressionETC2,
textureCompressionASTC_LDR, and textureCompressionBC features, and a new
CapabilitiesVKTest asserts CapabilitiesVK::SupportsTextureCompression
reports all three families. Without the enable added in the previous
commit, GetEnabledDeviceFeatures never requests them, the read-back in
SetPhysicalDevice stays false, and this test fails -- guarding against a
regression of the plumbing.

Issue: flutter#189107
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LGTM. To @gaaclarke for a second review, or to hand off to someone else for a review.

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lgtm

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2026-08-04 125822178+guszxtavo@users.noreply.github.com [Impeller] Enable ETC2/ASTC LDR/BC texture compression features at Vulkan device creation (flutter/flutter#189303)
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