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fhucho
fhucho

Reputation: 34560

Why isn't graphics acceleration turned on by default in Honeycomb?

Why isn't graphics acceleration turned on by default in Honeycomb? Are there any situations when it's better to leave it disabled?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 739

Answers (1)

Romain Guy
Romain Guy

Reputation: 98501

It is not turned on by default for compatibility reasons. Not 100% of the Canvas API is supported when turned on (although the missing parts are very few and rarely used) and there might be bugs in the new implementation. There are also new constraints (for instance if you try to draw a bitmap larger than the maximum OpenGL texture size, it will fail.)

The new rendering pipeline also uses native display lists for each View, which triggers bugs in some apps. For instance, if a View relies on its parent to invalidate() to redraw itself, it's a bug in the app, but it "works" without hardware acceleration. It will however not work with hardware acceleration on.

Our goal is to make hardware acceleration on by default as soon as possible but we do not want to break apps. That said, apps using standard views and APIs should work just fine.

Upvotes: 3

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