On Dec 5, 12:01 pm, Romain Guy <[email protected]> wrote: > This setting is unfortunately a double-edged sword, it was intended for > developers so they could easily test their application with hardware > acceleration turned on.
I interpreted the setting as an aggressive move to make developers update their apps for ICS. Of course users are going to check a box marked "Acceleration", especially the first wave of ICS users, Galaxy Nexus early-adopters or the CM9-alpha crowd. > You can easily check whether your app is hardware accelerated on startup > and warn the user it's not supported. Also it appears that view.setLayerType(View.LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE, null); still works as intended. > > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:04 PM, webmonkey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I see now that there are some websites that advise people to turn it > > > on because it makes everything run smoother. > > > Got any links? At least we can work on trying to get these posts > > updated, particularly if there's no SDK means of telling Android "no > > means no" when it comes to the Force GPU setting (and I see nothing in > > the SDK that looks promising). > > > -- > > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > >http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguy > >http://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > > Warescription: Three Android Books, Plus Updates, One Low Price! > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > Romain Guy > Android framework engineer > [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
