Category: Miscellaneous

I’ve recently been spending time travelling overseas, taking a bit of a break after reaching an important milestone with the book, and also taking a bit of a rest from working for myself! The trip has been good so far, and I’ve even been keeping up to date with items from the RSS feed. Here … Continue reading Site Updates, and Thoughts on Native Development for the Web»

Are you looking to make a live wallpaper for Android? Wondering how to use OpenGL from a wallpaper service? Mark Guerra and some other contributors have kindly made their work available on GitHub, at https://github.com/GLWallpaperService/GLWallpaperService. This repository includes an OpenGL wallpaper service as well as several samples that show you how to use the service. Yours … Continue reading Introducing GLWallpaperService»

Starting from today, Learn OpenGL ES now has a new community section of the site with a new set of forums! [Edit: Due to some technical issues and low usage, I have disabled the forums until further notice. I would still like to have a forums section in the future, so they can come back … Continue reading Announcing the New Forums, and a Roundup!»

Hi all, After nearly a year of working with the great team over at The Pragmatic Bookshelf, I am happy to announce that OpenGL ES for Android: A Quick-Start Guide is now in beta! OpenGL ES for Android: A Quick-Start Guide follows in the tradition of this website and goes into more detail, teaching you how … Continue reading Introducing OpenGL ES for Android: A Quick-Start Guide, Now in Beta»

Welcome to another community round-up! A lot of people have been busy, creating great games, tutorials, and live wallpapers. Check them out below (in alphabetical order): Advancing Usability How to use the new OpenGL features of Qt5 Ino Pizza Snake Free pleyasLab Dolphins Real 3D Gaia 3D HD Free Rene van der Lende Kube — a tutorial … Continue reading OpenGL Community Roundup, January 2013 Edition»

The community has been busy here at Learn OpenGL ES, as many visitors have been developing fantastic games, live wallpapers, and tutorials of their own! I’d like to highlight some of the work that I have come across in recent weeks; if you’re part of the community here and would like to be featured as … Continue reading Check Out These Cool Live Wallpapers, Games, and Tutorials by Fellow Learn OpenGL ESers!»

An early student of Learn OpenGL ES, Miguel, has been working on some neat apps lately. Miguel was one of the first readers at Learn OpenGL ES, and we’ve exchanged at least a few emails back and forth about different topics, such as working with the camera through matrices. We were both learning a lot … Continue reading Check out These Cool Apps from an Early Student of Learn OpenGL ES!»

For those of you who may have missed it, the Android team recently released an upgraded emulator image that has support for native OpenGL ES 2.0! That’s right; not only is it now supported, but the calls are translated to desktop OpenGL so they can be accelerated by your native graphics layer. It’s still better … Continue reading Android Emulator Now Supports Native OpenGL ES2.0!»

Thank yous and mentions A big thank you goes to the following guys who have recently kindly featured Learn OpenGL ES: The Khronos Group. The Khronos Group is a non-profit, member-funded consortium dedicated to open and royalty-free standards for graphics, parallel computing, and dynamic media. There is a lot of cool stuff going on over … Continue reading OpenGL ES Roundup, March 9, 2012»

Android is booming very rapidly, and the market share has gone from nothing to dominating the market, within only a couple of years. I still remember when just a bit more than a year ago, competitors still thought that Android was only going to fill a niche market, and that it was “clunky” and “slow”. … Continue reading Google Celebrates 10 Billion Downloads on the Market: Several Great Apps Available for Only 10 Cents Each!»