Android :: OpenGL-ES Games - Tutorials And Libraries?
Oct 27, 2009
What tutorials and libraries are available which can help beginners to develop 2D and 3D games on Android using OpenGL-ES? I'm looking for tutorials which can help me learn OpenGL-ES, and I'm looking for OpenGL-ES libraries which can make life easier for beginners in OpenGL-ES.
Since Android is still small, I guess it may be help-full to read iPhone OpenGL-ES tutorials as well, as I suppose the OpenGL-ES functionality is much the same.
I have found the following useful information which I would have liked to share:
Android tutorials: DroidNova: Basic tutorial covering polygons, no textures anddev forum with some tutorials
Other Android OpenGL-ES information: Google IO lecture regarding games, not much OpenGLES The The Khronos Reference Manual is also relevant to have, but its not exactly the best place to start.
iPhone OpenGL-ES tutorials (where the OpenGl-ES information is probably useful): http://web.me.com/smaurice/AppleCoder/iPhone_OpenGL/Archive.html
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As for libraries which a beginner might use to get a simpler hands-on experience with OpenGL-ES, I have only found Rokon, which is recently started, thus has many holes and bugs. And it's gnuGPL licensed (at the moment) which means it cannot be used, if we wish to sell our games.
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Jun 30, 2010
As I am one who cannot find any decent Android-based OpenGL ES references, I have decided to start one. You can check it out at http://www.vincepascuzzi.com. As I am not a seasoned GL programmer, any and all comments and/or questions are greatly appreciated!
My mission is to first create an OpenGL version of an application on Mac OS X, and then port to Android. Once the port is done, I go through each program, step-by-step, and contrast and compare how the port was done. I also explicitly point out any and all differences between the two, subtle or obvious.
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Jul 13, 2010
I looked around for info on this in the group but couldn't find any... so far in my OpenGL programming I've just done everything directly, but I was curious if anyone had written any "wrapper" libraries for it besides min3d. Min3d is great (or is getting there) but it's GPL'd, making it unsuitable for a commercial product (if my understanding of the license is correct).
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Dec 2, 2009
I'm experienced with openGL but not Android. I just started. I have some spinning cubes running on a Droid and I'm barely getting 30FPS. Should I be using GLSurfaceView to get the best performance or is there a better way?
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Nov 11, 2009
Is there an Android Google group specifically for games development, especially using OpenGL ES?
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Feb 25, 2009
Single Threaded OpenGL game ! (check bottom, you can download and use the helper class) Lighting disabled ! Depth Buffer disabled ! Culling enabled ! Textures disabled !
Just 176 integers (x,y values only) making 88 vertexes along with 132 index numbers making "44 triangles only"
Framerates I get is
with GL_BLENDING disabled - 145 fps approx only! enabled - 110 fps approx only!
I have the screenshot of exact code in the draw function here.. just 2 damn lines ! I have hidden only the comments.. click here to see it http://prasna991.googlepages.com/drawframe.png
variable details in the 2 lines of code =========================== ipts = 176 elements (only x and y for each vertex) totallinetriangles * 3 = 176 lineindexes = 132 elements - type "short"
Here is the screenshot of output drawing and how it will look like http://prasna991.googlepages.com/screen.png
OpenGL single threaded Initialization Helper ================================ Here is my OpenGL helper class.. makes the OpenGL initialization for newbies a cakewalk http://prasna991.googlepages.com/OpenGLHelperclass.txt
I tested by rendering on the touch event only.. frame rate drops only when u touch and drag and here I have just tested by tapping and releasing gently on the emulator and on the device
Is this the device limitations ? So graphics is actually a lot lot lot slower than on iPhone ?
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Jul 24, 2010
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In Java, there is a GL object passed, which has all GL methods on it.
In C, you just talk to the native library.
In a single onDrawFrame callback (for which Java is passed a GL), can I use methods on the GL object, and also call NDK methods which access the openGL library?
In other words, is the GL object just a wrapper for the same instance of the native library?
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Nov 17, 2010
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I was trying http-cleint tutorials from svn.apache.org. While running the application I am getting the following error in console.
CODE:............
I have added android.permission.INTERNET in AndroidManifest.xml.
CODE:...........
The java code in HalloAndroid.java is as follows
CODE:....................
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Oct 6, 2010
I follow the instructions exactly on this page (and some of the other tutorials) but they always seem to be missing some key information as they dont work out of the box
I added a bunch of packages that seemed like were missing, but now I'm stuck.
http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-gridview.html
Description Resource Path Location Type Conversion to Dalvik format failed with error 1 HelloGrid Unknown Android Packaging Problem
And a whole bunch of these for each of the drawable.sample_* references
Description Resource Path Location Type R.drawable.sample_0 cannot be resolved ImageAdapter.java /HelloGrid/src/com/example/ImageAdapter line 51 Java Problem
CODE:....
As you can see I have all the images loaded in the /drawable directory
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CODE:................
My com.example.helloandroid.R doesnt have R.id.textview, and endroid.R.id class does not have endroid.R.id.textview field. Where do I support to get this field, com.example.helloandroid.R.id.textview?
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Jun 24, 2010
I am looking to start a project that will involve the use of soap quite extensively. However... I know nothing about it! I was wondering if the community here could point me towards a few of the choicer tutorials on the net instead of having to wade through countless sub-par search results. And when I say I know nothing about it, I mean I know that its like an online api to some extent, but really that is it.
This would be used in conjunction with an android app, so I suppose I should also ask if android sdk even supports soap/ is this even a valid question? I really am clueless here.
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Jul 21, 2010
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Sep 6, 2010
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Is there a way to just alter a XML file (like suggested in tutorials)?
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Oct 30, 2010
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2. Fix Package permissions.
3. Apply any zip from SD and choose one particular zip.
4. Also, how to install non-market applications.
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I was really excited today when I saw the Tools r7 and ADT 0.9.8 were available and the latter had this note;
Fixes problems with handling of library project names that contain characters that are incompatible with the Eclipse path variable. Now properly sets up the link between the main project and the library project.
I create the library (foolib - no spaces, no caps, no punctuation). So far so good. I go to the main project, go to preferences --> Android. In the library box I add the new library. It appears. I press Apply. I press OK.
Nothing happens.
I return to the preferences, the library is no longer there JUST LIKE BEFORE.
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Oct 15, 2009
We have been using gdbserver to debug our JNI code as follows. We have been less than successful -- breakpoints do not always get activated, sometimes we get SIGILL, and we seldom ever get a useful stack when the debugging stops on SIGSEGV, sometimes the program dies with SIGTRAP!!!
We have occasionally been able to have debug sessions with s/n, but since pretty much every SEGV has resulted in either a damaged stack, or at least, gdbserver can not find the stack, it's a pain.
Is there something we are missing? Is there some reason to use the 4.2.1 vs 4.3.1 toolchain? (Why are there two toolchains? I assume because of bugs in each that are fixed in the other... which bugs?)
We guessed that the "dalvik" process that we wanted to debug was app_process --- we found this out by looking at /proc/XXX/cmdline on our running activity.
This is what we do typically do(repo sync directory is in /build/m1 for me)
invoke:/build/m1/prebuilt/linux-x86/toolchain/arm-eabi-4.2.1/bin/arm-eabi- gdb
(some of us use -tui, some of us run it under Xemacs, etc.)
We then do:
CODE:..........
We then start our activity, adb shell, discover the PID of the activity, discover the IP of the phone with "netcfg", and:
app_15 1815 49 107468 15744 ffffffff afe0d4a4 S org.credil.thomas_watson.videophoneservice
# gdbserver 0.0.0.0:1234 --attach 1815 Attached; pid = 1815 Listening on port 1234 Remote debugging from host 132.213.238.4
(gdb) target remote 132.213.236.179:1234
This is with a physical device. With an emulator, one has to, of course, run the adb forward stuff. (Too bad that doesn't work with a real device too, as then I would not need to run gdb over the wireless)
Program terminated with signal SIGKILL, Killed. The program no longer exists. (gdb) target remote 132.213.236.179:1234 Remote debugging using 132.213.236.179:1234 Error while mapping shared library sections: /system/bin/linker: No such file or directory. warning: .dynamic section for "/build/m2/out/target/product/generic/ symbols/system/lib/libc.so" is not at the expected address (wrong library or version mismatch?) ... many more GDB will be unable to debug shared library initializers and track explicitly loaded dynamic code. tkill () at bionic/libc/arch-arm/bionic/tkill.S:52
(gdb) break sendframe Breakpoint 1 at 0x80401086: file /build/m1/packages/apps/ VideoPhoneService/libvideophoneservice/src/rooster.cpp, line 96.
(gdb) c Continuing.
Program terminated with signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap. The program no longer exists. (gdb)
(btw, an annoyance about googlegroups is that it seems that it looks at my SMTP from header, rather than From:... This basically means that I can not post from gmane.org via NNTP, which is a shame. Is there a secret NNTP access on googlegroups.com, I wonder?)
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Jun 17, 2009
I need to know the footPrint of Android and its various Libraries
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