Does the Android emulator support OpenGL ES 3.0?

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Cypress Frankenfeld picture Cypress Frankenfeld · Jul 21, 2014 · Viewed 15.8k times · Source

I know that the emulator has supported OpenGL ES 2.0 as of SDK tools 17 and Android 4.0.3, but that was introduced back in April 2012.

Does the Android emulator support OpenGL ES 3.0, or are we still waiting on that?
If not, does any other third-party emulator/simulator (e.g. Genymotion) support OpenGL ES 3.0?

Answer

Jamal Eason picture Jamal Eason · May 22, 2017

The latest Android Emulator now supports OpenGL ES 3.0. To use OpenGL ES 3.0, your development machine needs a host GPU graphics card that supports OpenGL 3.2 or higher on Microsoft® Windows® or Linux.

See: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/05/android-studio-3-0-canary1.html

OpenGL ES 3.0 in Android Emulator

The gles3jni sample app from the NDK is a good option to try it out.

If it fails with:

java.lang.RuntimeException: createContext failed: EGL_BAD_CONFIG

also try to run first on host:

echo "GLESDynamicVersion = on" >> ~/.android/advancedFeatures.ini

as the devs are currently whitelisting supported host GPUs, and that overrides it, see also: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/68496715

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