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iOS: Hardcode rendering API to Metal in tests (no-op) - #190422

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Some of our tests were selecting a rendering API between kMetal and kSoftware. On iOS we no longer support any backend other than Metal.

enable_impeller is a static constexpr const bool that's hardcoded to true, so these expressions always evaluate to kMetal; the kSoftware arm is dead code. This replaces the ternaries with kMetal to clean up the code and save the compiler a few microseconds.

This removes the last references to IOSRenderingAPI::kSoftware outside the no-Metal fallback itself. I'll send a follow-up to delete that.

No changes to behaviour, and really no change to the compiled tests for that matter.

Issue: #190041
Issue: #112232

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Some of our tests were selecting a rendering API between kMetal and
kSoftware. On iOS we no longer support any backend other than Metal.

`enable_impeller` is a `static constexpr const bool` that's hardcoded to
`true`, so these expressions always evaluate to `kMetal`; the
`kSoftware` arm is dead code. This replaces the ternaries with `kMetal`
to clean up the code and save the compiler a few microseconds.

This removes the last references to `IOSRenderingAPI::kSoftware` outside
the no-Metal fallback itself. I'll send a follow-up to delete that.

No changes to behaviour, and really no change to the compiled tests for
that matter.
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This pull request updates several test files for the iOS platform view and accessibility bridge by hardcoding the rendering_api parameter to flutter::IOSRenderingAPI::kMetal during the instantiation of flutter::PlatformViewIOS, removing the previous conditional check based on the enable_impeller setting. There are no review comments, and I have no feedback to provide.

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Manual roll Flutter from e52f01c920ad to b766512c65d8 (42 revisions)

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2026-08-04 [email protected] Roll Dart SDK from 2a799a2404e9 to 9859c0a39adb (4 revisions) (flutter/flutter#190521)
2026-08-04 [email protected] Revert: iOS: Eliminate use of IOSContextNoop in platform view tests (flutter/flutter#190501)
2026-08-04 [email protected] [Impeller] Enable ETC2/ASTC LDR/BC texture compression features at Vulkan device creation (flutter/flutter#189303)
2026-08-03 [email protected] Remove openglessdf from impeller_unittests. (flutter/flutter#190469)
2026-08-03 [email protected] [web] Unify image decoding and codecs on CanvasKit and Skwasm (flutter/flutter#188573)
2026-08-03 [email protected] iOS: Eliminate use of IOSContextNoop in platform view tests (flutter/flutter#190419)
2026-08-03 [email protected] Add path rendering benchmarks (flutter/flutter#188654)
2026-08-03 [email protected] Add windows platform support for primitive_shape_test integration test (flutter/flutter#190464)
2026-08-03 [email protected] Roll Skia from 958c1c1921a1 to a08d918ebd6a (3 revisions) (flutter/flutter#190467)
2026-08-03 [email protected] tests: add --ios-runtime param (flutter/flutter#190414)
2026-08-03 [email protected] iOS: Remove the synchronous first-frame wait (flutter/flutter#190432)
2026-08-03 [email protected] iOS: Eliminate the Impeller/Skia backend selection params (flutter/flutter#190416)
2026-08-03 [email protected] iOS,macOS: Use @autoclosure in Logger (flutter/flutter#190417)
2026-08-03 [email protected] tools: Support FLUTTER_HOST_ARCH in update_dart_sdk scripts (flutter/flutter#190421)
2026-08-03 [email protected] iOS: Hardcode rendering API to Metal in tests (no-op) (flutter/flutter#190422)
2026-08-03 [email protected] a11y: Map disabled/read-only semantics to AX node restriction (flutter/flutter#190353)
2026-08-03 [email protected] [Infra] Replace defunct umbrella template with Wasm issue form (flutter/flutter#190471)
2026-08-03 [email protected] Roll Skia from abecb0dc02c1 to 958c1c1921a1 (4 revisions) (flutter/flutter#190459)
2026-08-03 [email protected] Roll Dart SDK from 65b163be2485 to 2a799a2404e9 (3 revisions) (flutter/flutter#190454)
2026-08-03 [email protected] Roll Skia from 68efb3f2ad16 to abecb0dc02c1 (1 revision) (flutter/flutter#190443)
2026-08-03 [email protected] Roll Packages from 5351d8c to ac87e65 (4 revisions) (flutter/flutter#190441)
2026-08-03 [email protected] Roll Skia from 5a761eb826c1 to 68efb3f2ad16 (1 revision) (flutter/flutter#190440)
2026-08-03 [email protected] Roll Skia from 4c9f8b4805e2 to 5a761eb826c1 (1 revision) (flutter/flutter#190437)
2026-08-03 [email protected] [macOS] Resume app lifecycle on becomeActive to avoid frozen UI after occlusion (flutter/flutter#188772)
2026-08-03 [email protected] Roll Skia from 39cda9d6d7d2 to 4c9f8b4805e2 (6 revisions) (flutter/flutter#190426)
2026-08-03 [email protected] Roll Skia from df13bfb5a54e to 39cda9d6d7d2 (2 revisions) (flutter/flutter#190425)
2026-08-02 [email protected] iOS: Serialise CADisplayLink access in VSyncClient tests (flutter/flutter#190335)
2026-08-02 [email protected] Roll Skia from 32329e5643b5 to df13bfb5a54e (1 revision) (flutter/flutter#190394)
2026-08-02 [email protected] [Impeller] Skip binding dead-code-eliminated resources on Metal (flutter/flutter#190040)
2026-08-01 [email protected] [Flutter GPU] Raise Dart errors for invalid render pipelines and memoize per-draw pipeline state (flutter/flutter#189899)
2026-08-01 [email protected] Revert "Improve non rect platform view rendering  (#182662)" (flutter/flutter#190003)
2026-08-01 [email protected] Roll Skia from ebf50520d720 to 32329e5643b5 (1 revision) (flutter/flutter#190389)
2026-08-01 [email protected] Roll Skia from f73c4510d12d to ebf50520d720 (6 revisions) (flutter/flutter#190376)
2026-07-31 [email protected] Primitive shape integration test (flutter/flutter#190368)
2026-07-31 [email protected] Eliminate some early returns in uber_sdf.frag to fix broken UberSDF AA on Windows (flutter/flutter#190260)
2026-07-31 [email protected] chore: swiftshader mirrored + llvm16 (flutter/flutter#181225)
2026-07-31 [email protected] [web] Remove in-repo agent documentation (flutter/flutter#190326)
2026-07-31 [email protected] [windows]: Uses offscreen MSAA when implicit msaa isn't available. (flutter/flutter#190256)
2026-07-31 [email protected] flutter_tools: Use new FileSystemExtension from devtools (flutter/flutter#190360)
2026-07-31 [email protected] Roll Dart SDK from c3acfc2479f6 to 65b163be2485 (1 revision) (flutter/flutter#190358)
2026-07-31 [email protected] Use devicectl for screenshots on Xcode 27, remove idevicescreenshot artifact (flutter/flutter#189091)
2026-07-31 [email protected] Roll Skia from 7ef86a5b0eb9 to f73c4510d12d (1 revision) (flutter/flutter#190352)

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