It's easy to say that until you have actually written an OpenGL game for
Android. Running at seconds per frame instead of frames per second
means you can ONLY test on real hardware. On real hardware my game
(Tank Recon 3D) takes over 5 minutes to load in the debugger (30 seconds
on BlackBerry). Even working with these limitations you also have to
develop for the different OS versions and screen sizes.
Now I understand what you're saying with the emulation but this blanket
answer is getting kind of old. Stop giving the 'You can't get there
from here' answer and try and figure something out. The BlackBerry
emulators route the OpenGL calls to the desktop PC and allow you to
choose the level of acceleration. Maybe this is something that can be
looked into. Sure I know you're not getting a 1:1 mapping but it does
allows you to develop. How about making a new driver backed by the
desktop GPU and give some way to select it?
On 1/29/2011 12:53 PM, Dianne Hackborn wrote:
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Miguel Morales
<therevolti...@gmail.com <mailto:therevolti...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Not to mention that testing OpenGL games is impossible. The only way
to test on devices is users, otherwise it's just a guessing and hoping
for the best.
In any case, I don't care WHY the emulator is so slow. Hopefully
they'll make it fast in the near future, the iPhone emulator is much
better.
At the end of the day, you absolutely need to test and run on a
device, especially for doing things like OpenGL games. An emulator or
simulator on desktop hardware is never going to give you a good idea
of how your app performs on real hardware.
This isn't an excuse for the emulator being slow (we really would like
to improve it, this is just a fairly challenging problem), but no
matter what is done it can never be a replacement for running on a
real device.
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to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All
such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others
can see and answer them.
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