Android Live Wallpapers with OpenGL ES 2.0?

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user382157 picture user382157 · Feb 15, 2011 · Viewed 8.2k times · Source

Has anyone managed to get OpenGL ES 2.0 working in a live wallpaper? I have a class that uses OpenGL ES 2.0 and runs fine as a Renderer for a GLSurfaceView. However, I want it to function as a live wallpaper. I found Robert Green's GLWallpaperService, but that is based on an older version of GLSurfaceView and does not support setEGLContextClientVersion, which is needed to run OpenGL ES 2.0.

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JesusFreke picture JesusFreke · Aug 14, 2011

I've managed to get an opengl-based LWP working by extending GLSurfaceView and then wrapping that in a wallpaper service. I haven't specifically tested if opengl es 2.0 works with this method, but I see no reason it wouldn't.

You can find the LWP specific files at https://github.com/JesusFreke/Penroser/tree/master/src/org/jf/GLWallpaper. They should be generic and usable as-is in other projects. For an example of how to use these classes, see https://github.com/JesusFreke/Penroser/blob/master/src/org/jf/Penroser/PenroserLiveWallpaper.java

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