trying to find best way to develop opengl es 2.0 in windows

Question

i like to develop games to android based on opengl es 2.0 , with the emulator its a apain is there any better way to develop opengl es 2.0 app on windows fast toolkit /engine ? something that i can debug the code .
Thanks

Answer 1

You can use one of OpenGL ES 2.0 emulations on Windows to develop your application. Then majority of your rendering code will be same C/C++ code for Windows and for Android. Only platform specific stuff would be opening window, getting inputs (toches) and reading files.

Here are some of GLES2 emulators from different vendors:

• Imgtec PowerVR - supports PVR texture compression
• Qualcomm Ardeno - supports ATITC texture compression
• ARM Mali
• Nvidia Tegra - supports DXT texture compression
• Google ANGLE - supports DXT texture compression. Opensource! Used by Chrome & Firefox as WebGL backend.

I myself like and use Google ANGLE to develop my app on Windows. After that I can run app on Android without changing any of rendering code.