GLSurfaceView: Making Things Easy Since 2008
The first thing we need is some type of View that will allow us to draw via OpenGL ES. Luckily, there's such a View in the Android API—it's called GLSurfaceView, and it's a descendent of the SurfaceView class, which we already used for drawing the world of Mr. Nom.
We also need a separate main loop thread again so that we don't bog down the UI thread. Surprise: GLSurfaceView already sets up such a thread for us! All we need to do is implement a listener interface called GLSurfaceView.Renderer and register it with the GLSurfaceView. The interface has three methods.
interface Renderer {
public void onSurfaceCreated(GL10 gl, EGLConfig config);
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