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Android Develops Enhanced OpenGL Support

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Mar 8, 2010, 7:29 PM   by Philip Berne

Google today released the Android Native Development Kit revision 3 (NDK r3), offering expanded capabilities to Android developers. Most interesting to end users is probably enhanced support for OpenGL ES 2.0, now offering improved graphics rendering through vertex and fragment shader programs. Android has been roundly criticized for lagging behind Apple's iPhone OS in gaming support. While the new NDK r3 can be used to target devices running Android 1.5 and higher, the enhanced OpenGL support will only target Android 2.0 and higher devices, like the Motorola Droid or the Google Nexus One. On the back end, the new Android NDK r3 also offers refreshed binaries in line with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) 4.4.0, which Google says will generate more compact and efficient machine code.

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bluecoyote

Mar 8, 2010, 8:07 PM

Great News!

If you own one of the two Android handsets that have Android 2.0 or above!

The rest of you can wait until you can't return your phone and then sometime in the future maybe you'll get that too. Give or take a few months. Not like you're going anywhere with that $350.00 ETF... 🤣
Android is getting ready for ME!!! I've been waiting for Android to mature more and it seems as though it's getting closer to that point. But ATT FCKs up Android devices too much, so I'll probably end up getting a N1 that has ATT 3G directly from Goog...
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