As some of you may already know, Apple recently announced the iPhone 5s & 5c at their annual iPhone event, and one of the new updates is that the iPhone 5s will also be coming with support for OpenGL ES 3.0! Google announced support for OpenGL ES 3.0 with their release of Android 4.3 not too long ago, so the new version is slowly making its way onto mobile devices.
OpenGL ES 3.0 is backwards-compatible with OpenGL ES 2.0, so everything you learned about OpenGL ES 2.0 still applies. This post from Phoronix goes into more detail about what the new version brings: A Look At OpenGL ES 3.0: Lots Of Good Stuff.
On to the roundup:
Ghoshehsoft’s Blog – A look at many topics related to OpenGL ES 2.0 on Android.
Project Anarchy – “Project Anarchy is a complete end to end game engine and state-of-the-art toolset for mobile. Project Anarchy also comprises a vibrant game development community centered right here at www.projectanarchy.com. Project Anarchy includes an entirely free license to ship your game on iOS, Android and Tizen platforms.”
emscripten and PNaCl: Build Systems
What Does gpus_ReturnGuiltyForHardwareRestart Mean?
Theoretical Engineering: Occlusion Culling for BrickSmith
About the book
Android is booming like never before, with millions of devices shipping every day. In OpenGL ES 2 for Android: A Quick-Start Guide, you’ll learn all about shaders and the OpenGL pipeline, and discover the power of OpenGL ES 2.0, which is much more feature-rich than its predecessor.
It’s never been a better time to learn how to create your own 3D games and live wallpapers. If you can program in Java and you have a creative vision that you’d like to share with the world, then this is the book for you.
