Android :: OpenGL Lifecycle Ends With A Crash
Feb 7, 2010
I am having difficulties with the lifecycle of the opengl context. While rendering my scene and the user hits the back button, home button or another application opens in front of my application, my app is still running in the background.
So when my application comes to the foreground later on (user relaunches it or the app that was opened on top of it finishes), my application crashes and leaves me nothing but a GL stack trace which i can't properly decipher.
For rendering i use the GLSurfaceView and therefore delegate the onPause and onResume. The crash happens on the first call to glDrawElements(..).
I have tried to reload my resource (geometry/textures etc.) on onSurfaceChanged but with or without reloading... The problem persists.
This behavior can be observed on all AVD versions of the emulator as well as on the G1.
Here is the gl stacktrace i get.
CODE:.............
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Nov 8, 2009
I'm writing my opengl native game. Menu is using android api, game field using native lib ( c++ and opengl ). All in one activity ( different views ). If I press Back or Home button ( without overriting onKeyDown() ) all is fine: game just quit to desktop and when I again running, it saving its state. But I was needed to overrite Back and Menu button:
CODE:...............
Than I quit throught Home button and again run it. Sometimes all is fine, but sometimes I see only my menu, and black screen where the opengl must be. What's the problem? Also I was trying to overrite Home button, but seems it's impossible..
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Oct 8, 2010
Once again I'm trying to get into openGL, but as usual I choke when passing around vertices/vertixes/whatever and every little detail can lead to disaster (wrong format, initialization not properly set up, where memory are saved, etc.).
My main goal is to use openGL for 2D graphics to speed up performance compared to regular cpu drawing.
Anyways, my openGL Renderer looks like this code...
With an IndexOutOfBoundsException, but I'm sure there are more problems with the code.
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Jul 5, 2010
I've made some edits to my application but I'm pretty sure it crashing is linked to my updating my Nexus One. I've included the error as well as all code I think is relevant.
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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
I would like to be able to use the OpenGL API from both Java and C (via NDK).
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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In my application I have several activities, the main screen has 4 buttons that each start a different activity. So one of them is a search activity, once it searches it shows you a result activity. This result activity can be reached from other activities, so in general something like this:
Main activity -> Search activity -> Result activity
Main acitivty -> someother activity -> Result activity
Now, if I have reached this result activity and press back once or twice, and after that press the Home key it will show the Home screen. But if I want to get back to my application by holding the Home button and clicking on my app it will always go back to the Result activity, no matter which activity was the last one I was using. And if I press again back it will take me back to the Home screen.
If I try it again it will take me again to the Result activity. The only way to avoid this is to start the application by clicking on the app's icon. And this takes me to the last activity I was using and it remembers the state so if I press back again it doesn't take me to the Home screen, instead to the activity before it. To illustrate this:
Main activity -> Search activity -> result activity --back--> Search activity --Home Button--> Home Screen --Hold Home and select the app --> Result activity --back--> Home Screen
--Click application icon--> Search activity --back--> Main activity
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There's a decent amount of information out there on the Activity lifecycle. But I'm surprised how difficult it is to find a comprehensive description of the rendering lifecycle. By that I mean the order and rules by which a tree of nested activities, views, and drawables get to be sized and drawn to the screen, and the points at which a developer can modify rendering behavior.
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I thought that declaring in my manifest something like this
CODE:............
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My solution was:
CODE:........
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CODE:.......................
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CODE:..................
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http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html
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i found an android issue for the problem here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6094 and a similar thread here http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa.
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