Re: [android-developers] Will SurfaceView ever support hardware acceleration?

Recommendation is to use OpenGL.  If you are using Canvas for your drawing in a SurfaceView, you aren't really gaining anything over just not using a SurfaceView.  If you are using SurfaceView for performance reasons, you should prefer to use OpenGL to avoid the overhead of translating Canvas operations to OpenGL rendering.

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Simon Edström <simon.edstrom@screeninteraction.com> wrote:

Will SurfaceView ever support hardware acceleration? If yes, when?
Since hardware acceleration was introduced in 3.0 you would think that
the SurfaceView should be supported in ICS.

I'm currently working on an application that involves a SurfaceView
that runs very slow on big screens (ex. HTC One X) and would really
need some hardware acceleration.

Thanks!

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