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Asked: 2026-06-01T17:08:50+00:00

I am learning OpenGL with an aim to build OpenGL ES application for Android

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I am learning OpenGL with an aim to build OpenGL ES application for Android / iPhone.

Since I learn it from the beginning, I would prefer to learn the new specification, without touching the old stuff (glBegin etc.). Unfortunately, when I pass some tutorial and implement stuff, it turns out that the examples are incompatible with ES 2.0. For example, after those excellent tutorials I know how to implement lights, what works on my PC, but would not work on a mobile (gl_LightSource is not supported in the latter).

What I would like to do, is to develop the code on my PC, and restrict the API to the commands that are supported under OpenGL ES (like, throw error on glLight). Is that possible?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Assuming you are using Windows for development, then you can restrict the API to just OpenGL ES 2.0 by using Google ANGLE. ANGLE is basically wrapping DirectX, but you use it through a fully standard compliant OpenGL ES 2.0 interface.

    If you have an AMD Radeon GPU, you have another option: the AMD OpenGL ES SDK also provides a fully compliant 2.0 interface.

    In both cases, if you accidentally use non OpenGL ES 2.0 features, the code will just not compile or fail at runtime in case of unsupported combinations of parameters. Same goes for shaders, the glCompileShader call will fail.

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