Robert, Thank you very much. that is incredibly helpful to know. Satya
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Robert Green <rbgrn....@gmail.com> wrote: > FWIW - The iPhone simulator does not emulate the actual phone. > Instead it routes calls to native OSX functions, simulating the > environment. The Android emulator does in fact emulator an ARM CPU > and runs Android OS on it, which is an important distinction between > the two. When using GL in the iPhone simulator, you're actually > running all of your GL on the PowerVR GLES emulation library, which > uses hardware. It's great for developing but you still really need a > device to test since a PC GPU is going to be many times faster than a > mobile GPU. > > So why can't the Android emulator do the same thing? Because the PVR > lib is for x86/OSX and the Android emulator is running on ARM. > > > > On Oct 4, 4:13 pm, Satya Komatineni <satya.komatin...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> From the posting so far I have seen, the current emulator as of API >> level 8 and Platform 2.2 does not support OpenGL ES 2.0. (Only in the >> emulator that the support is not there) >> >> (The support is there at API level 8 for the ES 2.0) >> >> wondering if any jone has figured out the following >> >> 1. Will the emulator support ES 2.0 in the future (considering there >> is compilers, shaders etc needed to support es 2.0) >> 2. What is a likely timeframe this may be available? (months or >> sometime future?) >> >> I suppose considering that iPhone SDK has the emulator suppor for es >> 2.0, it can be anticipated on the Android emulator as well. >> >> Thanks for the help >> Satya Komatinenihttp://www.satyakomatineni.comhttp://www.androidbook.com > > -- > 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 > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
