Episode 100: Android Rendering
Android Developers Backstage
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Is There Any Changes in KitKat?
In KitKat, we added PBOs for improving upload speed for text. L was the release of so many things all happening at once. So render thread taking all of the GL rendering that we were doing previously on the main thread after your app produces the frame and passing it over to a background thread. And this is a pretty significant change because it allows you to actually produce animations in response to an activity launch which was previously completely impossible.
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