How to determine if an Android device has GPU from code?

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I want to know if an Android device has GPU or not, is there any way to determine that from code? I've looked into cpufeatures.h in NDK but there seems not to be anything regarding GPU

Could you, please, tell me the source of this information? I'm pretty sure my HTC Wildfire doesn't have one. — Alexander
– Alexander, Commented Nov 18, 2011 at 21:29
I am the source of this information. Apparently I am mistaken, though I feel very confident that the vast majority of Android devices have GPUs. Your Wildfire is an outlier. — CommonsWare
– CommonsWare, Commented Nov 19, 2011 at 0:51

Jyoti JK · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-10 08:40:49Z

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Here is the trick,

final ActivityManager activityManager = (ActivityManager) getSystemService(Context.ACTIVITY_SERVICE);
        final ConfigurationInfo configurationInfo = activityManager
                .getDeviceConfigurationInfo();
        final boolean supportsEs2 = configurationInfo.reqGlEsVersion >= 0x20000;

    if (supportsEs2) {
        Log.i("JO", "configurationInfo.reqGlEsVersion:"
                + configurationInfo.reqGlEsVersion + "supportsEs2:"
                + supportsEs2);
        // Request an OpenGL ES 2.0 compatible context.
        myGlsurfaceView.setEGLContextClientVersion(2);

        final DisplayMetrics displayMetrics = new DisplayMetrics();
        getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(displayMetrics);

        // Set the renderer to our demo renderer, defined below.
        myRenderer = new MyRenderer(this, myGlsurfaceView);

edited Mar 10, 2018 at 8:40

Jyoti JK

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answered Jun 19, 2013 at 16:43

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