Surfaces are always hardware accelerated in the sense that we use the GPU and/or other hardware chips to composite them on screen. This means all windows on Android behave this way. If you use a Canvas on a SurfaceView, the Canvas itself will still perform software rendering.
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Francisco Marzoa <[email protected]>wrote: > According to Mario Zechner's book "Beginning Android Games", you need a > SurfaceView so you can render from a thread different from the UI one, and > also because the Surface may be hardware accelerated. > > Bests, > > On 11/21/2012 05:26 PM, bob wrote: > >> >> Can someone tell me in layman's terms why you would use a SurfaceView >> instead of a View when making a game? >> >> >> Is it because a dual-core can distribute the load better? >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Android Developers" group. >> To post to this group, send email to android-developers@** >> googlegroups.com <[email protected]> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> android-developers+**[email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/**group/android-developers?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to > android-developers@**googlegroups.com<[email protected]> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+**[email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/**group/android-developers?hl=en<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
