Any context value you get from onDrawFrame is only useful within that call stack. I knew this before asking the question. I just wanted to establish the level of support available to those I have financial responsibilities to and thus get a little leeway in my scheduling. I've already been banned from this site using different email addresses for asking similar questions, and I suspect this will be the end of the discussion (if this is seen at all). It IS possible to do this on Android by circumventing the tools Gooble/Android provides, just for the record. Good luck to all in their efforts!
On Saturday, June 30, 2012 4:33:32 PM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote: > > Hello, > > I am optimizing an OpenGL-based application ported from that other > major mobile OS and find that I cannot successfully access the GL > context from anything other than the rendering thread of > GLSurfaceView. What I CAN do on other platforms is upload my single > (and large) texture to GL prior to needing to render the texture > itself. This is a 640x480 8-bit RGB texture that takes some time to > upload to the chip and needs to be done every time I realize a new > frame of animation from the background system memory buffer. I'm sure > you can appreciate the savings in execution time if I can perform this > upload from another thread when I have nothing left to do but wait for > GLSurfaceView's rendering thread to call me. All is synchronized > safely as evidenced by the successful release of this software using > this very same technique on that-other-platform-that-shall-not-be > named. Things are very smooth and zippy on that platform, but Android > currently suffers by comparison. Is there any way to do this? > > > Thanks > > Glenn -- 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
