How can I create a new NativeWindow in Android NDK?

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Albus Dumbledore picture Albus Dumbledore · Mar 21, 2011 · Viewed 10.4k times · Source

I tried the test-libstdc++ demo and liked that I can start it from the console and all without running a full-grown android application.

I'd like to create an opengl context so that I'd be able to execute my opengl es 2.0 app from within the console without too many bothering.

Any idea how could I initialize the EGL from within a NDK-app that doesn't use native activity or anything, i.e. it is not even packaged in a .APKK file, just has a main method is packed as an executable linux file.

Thanks a lot!

UPDATE

Does it by any chance has anything to do with ANativeWindow_acquire in *android/native_window.h`?

Thanks!

Answer

csanta picture csanta · Apr 8, 2011

If you look inside the git trees for Android, you will see that there are several simple test apps that create a native window and are launched from the command line.

click here to see the tests

Regarding the questions to some of the comments above by Albus, the issue with the flip chain is because your current driver can only support 1 flip chain in the system, and that's being held by SurfaceFlinger since that's the entity who can write to the native window/framebuffer. To work around this you can just stop the Android Run Time engine by typing 'stop' inside adb shell, then re-run your app. To get the Android Run time engine back up, do 'start'.

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