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Asked: 2026-05-20T08:15:37+00:00

Is there a way to decide up front based on the expected complexity of

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Is there a way to decide up front based on the expected complexity of a game/app in the planning phase whether to use regular Canvas drawing in a SurfaceView or to go with OpenGL?

I’ve been playing around with a Canvas and only need 2D movement, and on a fairly new phone I’m getting pretty decent performance with a bunch of primitive objects and a few bitmaps running around the screen on a solid background.

Is it fair to say that if I’m going to be drawing background images and increasing the number of objects being moved and drawn on top of them that I should go straight to OpenGL?

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  1. Editorial Team

    All I can say is that it depends on how many sprites you’re gonna use. Chris Pruett from Google has also documented this part very well.

    Google I/O 2009 and Google I/O 2010.

    Below is a picture from one of his slides that are related to your topic:
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    With that knowledge, you should go with OpenGL using the draw_texture extension. Remember to query out the string and check if draw_texture is supported on the actual device.

    For further information that are related to game development in general, see this.

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