Check if Android supports openGL ES2.0 or later in Kotlin

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How to check if Android supports openGL ES2.0 or later.

This article explains the way and example code in Kotlin.

Table of Contents
  1. Way to check GLES version
  2. Check if supports GLES2.0
  3. Restrict devices not support GLES2.0

Way to check GLES version

You can retrieve Android GLES version by the below code.

Example code in Kotlin :

val activityManager = getSystemService(Context.ACTIVITY_SERVICE) as ActivityManager
val configurationInfo = activityManager.getDeviceConfigurationInfo()
val glesVersion = configurationInfo.reqGlEsVersion

Check if supports GLES2.0

Simply determine if the version is greater than 0x20000.

Example code in Kotlin :

private fun supportGles2(): Boolean{
    val activityManager = getSystemService(Context.ACTIVITY_SERVICE) as ActivityManager
    val configurationInfo = activityManager.getDeviceConfigurationInfo()
    return configurationInfo.reqGlEsVersion >= 0x20000
}

Restrict devices not support GLES2.0

If you want to restrict devices that don’t support openGL ES2.0 from seeing your app in the GooglePlay, add the following to your app’s AndroidManifest.xml

Add the following to AndroidManfest.xml :

<uses-feature android:glEsVersion="0x00020000" android:required="true" />

 

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