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What about Google? The issues fairphone mention are passing Google certification suites. They should be relaxed to help those cases. As far as I know the major
by phh 6y ago
What about Google?
The issues fairphone mention are passing Google certification suites. They should be relaxed to help those cases. As far as I know the major issues are around GLES. It passed older CTS, so GLES was good enough back then. Surely it could be good enough now.
- PurpleFoxy 6y agoIsn’t gles replaced by vulkan since about 5 years ago? Google wouldn’t want so much fragmentation for app developers to deal with.
- phh 6y agoGoogle is slowly working on deprecating/hiding OEM's GLES drivers, in favor of Vulkan, but we're still very far from that. Most of Android's rendering is still mostly GLES, using directly OEM's GLES driver. Since Android 10, apps can decide to use Angle for generic GLES over Vulkan, but that's opt-in. Also the Snapdragon 801 chip of the Fairphone 2 doesn't have (official) support for vulkan