Re: [android-developers] Re: Renderscript Deprecated

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Dave Burke <daveburke@android.com> wrote:
> To add a little more context to the deprecation notice (I think the choice
> of the word "experimental" is a little misleading, sorry for the confusion):
>
> The feedback we got from internal and external app developers was that they
> preferred to use OpenGL directly because of familiarity & portability either
> through our Java bindings or NDK. In contrast, we do see interest in the
> compute API of Renderscript. Hence we've decided to no longer evolve the RS
> graphics APIs (hence deprecation notice) and instead focus on building out
> Renderscript's GPU-compute support and developing Renderscript further
> especially for applications such as image processing.

Thanks for the clarification!

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