Is it possible to program GPU for Android

Question

I am now programming on Android and I wonder whether we can use GPGPU for Android now? I once heard that Renderscript can potentially execute on GPGPU in the future. But I w

Answer 1

Actually Renderscript Compute doesn't use the GPU at this time, but is designed for it.

From Romain Guy who works on the Android platform:

• Renderscript Compute is currently CPU bound but with the for_each construct it will take advantage of multiple cores immediately
• Renderscript Compute was designed to run on the GPU and/or the CPU
• Renderscript Compute avoids having to write JNI code and gives you architecture independent, high performance results
• Renderscript Compute can, as of Android 4.1, benefit from SIMD optimizations (NEON on ARM)

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/android-developers/m194NFf_ZqA/Whq4qWisv5MJ