Android OpenGL image processing - without SurfaceView

Question

I want to do some background image processing using OpenGL ES 2 and shaders, but no drawing to a surface (ie off-screen rendering to framebuffers only). While I've already done so on iOS, I'm struggling with this on Android.

I think I'm close to creating a working OpenGL context, but haven't figured out how to do so without a SurfaceView.

Answer 1

Have a look at this gamedev post (click on expand to view the complete code). The code creates a GL context and uses the GLSurfaceView.Renderer interface to appropriately allow to write a renderer. On calling getBitmap() , the renderer is called to draw a frame, which is then read back and converted to a Bitmap.

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