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Android NDK Beginner`s Guide - Second Edition
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Android NDK Beginner`s Guide - Second Edition

by Sylvain Ratabouil
April 2015
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
494 pages
10h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Time for action – initializing OpenGL ES

Let's rewrite our GraphicsManager to initialize an OpenGL ES context:

  1. Modify jni/GraphicsManager.hpp by performing the following:
    • Include EGL/egl.h to bind OpenGL ES to the Android platform and GLES2/gl2.h to render graphics
    • Add a method stop() to unbind the OpenGL rendering context and free graphics resources when you're leaving the activity
    • Define EGLDisplay, EGLSurface, and EGLContext member variables, which represent handles to system resources, as shown here:
      ...
      #include "Types.hpp"
      
      #include <android_native_app_glue.h>
      #include <GLES2/gl2.h>
      #include <EGL/egl.h>
      ...
      
      class GraphicsManager {
      public:
          ...
          status start();
          void stop(); status update(); private: ... int32_t mRenderWidth; int32_t mRenderHeight; ...
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