Hello there, I have some experience with normal views and things for android (I have an app in the market) and I've been programming for a while (Java, C#, made some XNA stuff), but I've never really touched OpenGL until recently. I'm working on my own game engine to make things easier for future games I'm planning on making. The only problem is drawing things on a SurfaceView doesn't seem to get the results I desire (aka, low frame rates with only 10-20 objects on screen).
So I'm looking into converting all the graphics part of the engine to OpenGL ES. I cannot for the life of me figure out where to throw the code in though. I followed this guy's tutorials for a bit to get a feel for it: http://www.droidnova.com/android-3d-game-tutorial-part-i,312.html Here's how my engine is structured (without OpenGL): - I have the main activity, which handles built in android menu stuff and then I set the content view to my GameView. - The GameView (SurfaceView) class also has a GameThread that does all the game updates and input/drawing/sound. - Then other stuff like a Sprite/Pawn/Player class etc. I noticed in the OpenGL tutorial I followed that the Renderer runs in its own thread. I haven't had to deal too much with threading yet but I do know that it takes some work for threads to communicate with each other properly etc. Do I need to eliminate the GameThread I had going and throw all the code in a Renderer? I'm kind of stumped. Any help would be appreciated.
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