fix(replay): Use software canvas for the video encoder on the Android Emulator

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📜 Description

SimpleVideoEncoder now draws frames with lockCanvas(null) instead of lockHardwareCanvas() when running on the Android Emulator (Build.HARDWARE contains goldfish or ranchu), the same way it already does for Xiaomi, Motorola and Spreadtrum/Unisoc devices. The device check moved into an internal shouldUseSoftwareCanvas() function so it can be unit tested.

💡 Motivation and Context

With a hardware canvas, hwui creates an EGL window surface on the encoder's input Surface. The emulator's EGL driver (libEGL_emulation, gfxstream guest/egl/egl.cpp) dequeues the next buffer up front, at surface init and after every swapBuffers, and cancels it in ~egl_window_surface_t. CCodec::stop() already disconnects the input surface, so when Surface.release() later destroys the hwui context, the driver cancels a buffer whose queue is gone. That shows up as an intermittent SIGSEGV in eglDestroySurface on the RenderThread. A software canvas keeps hwui and EGL off this surface entirely. Drawing one small bitmap per frame on the CPU is cheap.

Reordering the teardown in release() was considered too. It would have to move surface.release() before mediaCodec.stop(), not just before mediaCodec.release(), and it changes behavior on every device. This PR keeps the change scoped to the emulator.

• resolves Session Replay: native SIGSEGV in eglDestroySurface (libEGL_emulation) when SimpleVideoEncoder releases its input surface on the Android emulator #6279

💚 How did you test it?

Added SimpleVideoEncoderCanvasTest, a Robolectric test that covers regular devices, Xiaomi, Motorola, and ranchu/goldfish emulators. ReplayCacheTest still passes. The reporter offered to try a patched build on the emulator image where the crash happened.

📝 Checklist

• I added GH Issue ID & Linear ID
• I added tests to verify the changes.
• No new PII added or SDK only sends newly added PII if sendDefaultPII is enabled.
• I updated the docs if needed.
• I updated the wizard if needed.
• Review from the native team if needed.
• No breaking change or entry added to the changelog.
• No breaking change for hybrid SDKs or communicated to hybrid SDKs.
• Public API changes reviewed by another Mobile SDK team member or implemented according to the develop docs spec.

🔮 Next steps

Ask the reporter to verify on system-images;android-37.1;google_apis_playstore_ps16k;arm64-v8a.

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