Tag: GLSurfaceView

I’ve recently been looking into creating my first Live Wallpaper for Android as an opportunity to learn more about OpenGL ES and hopefully create something neat at the same time. Throughout our entire series of Android tutorials, we’ve been using GLSurfaceView to take care of the hard work of threading and initialization for us; imagine … Continue reading How to Use OpenGL ES 2 in an Android Live Wallpaper»

In this lesson we’ll take a look at the basics of blending in OpenGL. We’ll look at how to turn blending on and off, how to set different blending modes, and how different blending modes mimic real-life effects. In a later lesson, we’ll also look at how to use the alpha channel, how to use … Continue reading Android Lesson Five: An Introduction to Blending»