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Asked: 2026-05-30T21:43:50+00:00

My app uses Canvas methods which are not supported by hardware acceleration (clipPath, drawPicture),

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My app uses Canvas methods which are not supported by hardware acceleration (clipPath, drawPicture), so I do not enable hardware accelaration. However, I started getting crash reports with exceptions like: android.view.GLES20Canvas.drawPicture(GLES20Canvas.java:895).

In investigating this, it seems that some devices have an option to force hardware acceleration in settings: “force gpu rendering, use 2d harware acceleartion in applciations”.
So, I added <application android:hardwareAccelerated="false"> to my manifest.xml, but still get the crash when the “force gpu rendering” setting is checked.

So, is there anyway to prevent my application from being forced to use hardware acceleration?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Disable it for the views using those operations with the ‘View Level’ option in the dev guide – I expect that other options will be foiled by how the setting is forced on your app.

    myView.setLayerType(View.LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE, null);

    Failing that, the link describes how you can detect hardware acceleration, to complain about it.

    View.isHardwareAccelerated() returns true if the View is attached to a hardware accelerated window.

    Canvas.isHardwareAccelerated() returns true if the Canvas is hardware accelerated

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