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I know that the emulator has supported OpenGL ES 2.0 as of SDK tools 17 and Android 4.0.3, but that was introduced back in April 2012.
Does the Android emulator support OpenGL ES 3.0, or are we still waiting on that?
If not, does any other third-party emulator/simulator (e.g. Genymotion) support OpenGL ES 3.0?
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OpenGL ES is the dominant graphics API in today's smartphones and has even extended its reach onto the desktop. The list of platforms supporting OpenGL ES includes iOS, Android, BlackBerry, bada, Linux, and Windows. OpenGL ES also underpins WebGL, a web standard for browser-based 3D graphics.
Android includes support for high performance 2D and 3D graphics with the Open Graphics Library (OpenGL), specifically, the OpenGL ES API. OpenGL is a cross-platform graphics API that specifies a standard software interface for 3D graphics processing hardware.
OpenGL for Embedded Systems (OpenGL ES or GLES) is a subset of the OpenGL computer graphics rendering application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D computer graphics such as those used by video games, typically hardware-accelerated using a graphics processing unit (GPU).
The latest Android Emulator now supports OpenGL ES 3.0. To use OpenGL ES 3.0, your development machine needs a host GPU graphics card that supports OpenGL 3.2 or higher on Microsoft® Windows® or Linux.
See: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/05/android-studio-3-0-canary1.html
The gles3jni sample app from the NDK is a good option to try it out.
If it fails with:
java.lang.RuntimeException: createContext failed: EGL_BAD_CONFIG
also try to run first on host:
echo "GLESDynamicVersion = on" >> ~/.android/advancedFeatures.ini
as the devs are currently whitelisting supported host GPUs, and that overrides it, see also: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/68496715
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