Does the Android Emulator Support Opengl Es 3.0

Does the Android emulator support OpenGL ES 3.0?

The latest Android Emulator now supports OpenGL ES 3.0. To use OpenGL ES 3.0, your development machine needs a host GPU graphics card that supports OpenGL 3.2 or higher on Microsoft® Windows® or Linux.

See:
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/05/android-studio-3-0-canary1.html

The gles3jni sample app from the NDK is a good option to try it out.

If it fails with:

java.lang.RuntimeException: createContext failed: EGL_BAD_CONFIG

also try to run first on host:

echo "GLESDynamicVersion = on" >> ~/.android/advancedFeatures.ini

as the devs are currently whitelisting supported host GPUs, and that overrides it, see also: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/68496715

Does the Visual Studio emulator for Android support OpenGL ES 3.0?

Someone has found the answer for me: OpenGLES 3.0 hasn't been supported.

from https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudioalm/2015/02/23/the-visual-studio-emulator-for-android-in-vs2015-ctp6/

... the VS Emulator for Android can now render apps that make use of OpenGL ES > up to version 2.0. .... (If you’re curious, under the hood we’re forwarding
OpenGL ES calls to the host machine’s GPU and using ANGLE to translate the
calls to DirectX).

from ANGLE (https://chromium.googlesource.com/angle/angle/+/master/README.md)

still not fully support GLES3.0 (in progress).

so It may cause the error on shader compilation on the emulator.

Update:

A staff member of MS told me in another site that the driver of the emulator hasn't supported OpenGLES 3.0. So currently the emulator won't support OpenGL ES 3.0 even if ANGLE does support.

Failed to create OpenGL ES 3.0 Context

OpenGL ES 3.0 isn't supported on the Android emulator.

See:

https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis.html

Specifically:

Note: The Android emulator does not support OpenGL ES 3.0 hardware
emulation. Running and testing code that uses this API requires a real
device with hardware that can support OpenGL ES 3.0

Does the Android Emulator support OpenGL ES 2.0?

Google released a new version with native x86 processor support, which sped things up a bit. It also supports OpenGL ES 2.0,faster-emulator-with-better-hardware :

As a bonus, since we’re now supporting OpenGL ES 2.0, your OpenGL
games can now run inside the emulator.

Note: When creating a virtual machine, make sure to select the “GPU emulation” option from the hardware menu if you want to take advantage of the new features.

Reference:

liliputing

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