About Hardware Acceleration

[n0_alterNative__]

Hi,

Lately i'm questioning myself why Motorola defy doesn't has hardware acceleration graphics for the Android Interface like Sony Ericcson Experia Arc does.

Why ? Defy has a powerful GPU that can Improve sightly the performance in the whole device and reduce CPU usage and also increase battery power. Can someone explain me why it isn't activated already ? Do you think that the next version AKA Ice Sandwich will come on our devices ? I hear that the next Android version will has GPU accelerated graphics, Is it right ?


Thanks !

 

[pravarth]

As far as i know xperia arc has a better gpu, hence it is faster.

What do you mean by hardware graphic acceleration for 'android interface'? Do you mean the launcher?

The last update for defy was froyo and it is very unlikey to get an official update to ice cream sandwich

 

[enorlin]

Hardware accelerated 2D graphics

You can now enable the OpenGL renderer for your application by setting android:hardwareAccelerated="true" in your manifest element's <application> element or for individual <activity> elements.

This flag helps applications by making them draw faster. This results in smoother animations, smoother scrolling, and overall better performance and response to user interaction.

ht tp://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.0.html

Seems like we will have to put our hopes in 3rd party developers to bring this to the Defy

 

[n0_alterNative__]

ht tp://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.0.html

Seems like we will have to put our hopes in 3rd party developers to bring this to the Defy

This is only for 3.X devices, which Google didn't release its source code to the community. Also this version is not optimized for mobile phones so I guess we have to cross the fingers and see what the community can do to port Ice Sandwitch to our device when it will be released.

The thing is, why some 2.3.X devices have 2D Accelerated Graphics and Defy don't ? It's a marketing strategy or something ? Cause' it hasn't any sense.

 

[ezantera]

Install launcher pro and opera then... they both use GPU to accelerate their work. Launcher pro is really smooth...