Going with OpenGL increases the complexity of the game as you now
have to deal with activity life cycle issues and drivers. You also now
have to manage creating and loading textures. All these things can be
managed of course but they will have to be managed and hence will
require more effort on your part.
I have released Freddy Jump, Freddy Falling and Wrath all using
regular canvas calls. They all have lite versions if you want to check
them out. None of these games have a performance problem AFAIK but they
are pretty basic.
If your game requires sprite scaling or rotations, then I think you
should consider OpenGL. Freddy Jump has rotations on Freddy but the
scenery is sparse. If you're just starting out I would strongly suggest
making a simple game that uses Canvas.
Leigh
On 1/8/2011 3:58 PM, brian purgert wrote:
What about drawing multiple background layers
On Jan 8, 2011 2:42 PM, "brian purgert" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Thanks I started watching that video,
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Miguel Morales
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> You should watch this:
>>
http://www.google.com/events/io/2009/sessions/WritingRealTimeGamesAndroid.html
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 8:34 PM, brian purgert
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> > So I was just wondering is openGL better in terms of making a
2dgame. does
>> > it render faster then if I were to draw on a Canvas....
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