On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Dave Burke <davebu...@android.com> wrote: > To add a little more context to the deprecation notice (I think the choice > of the word "experimental" is a little misleading, sorry for the confusion): > > The feedback we got from internal and external app developers was that they > preferred to use OpenGL directly because of familiarity & portability either > through our Java bindings or NDK. In contrast, we do see interest in the > compute API of Renderscript. Hence we've decided to no longer evolve the RS > graphics APIs (hence deprecation notice) and instead focus on building out > Renderscript's GPU-compute support and developing Renderscript further > especially for applications such as image processing.
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