Benefits of the New API - Learn OpenGL ES: For Mobile Game and Graphics Development - page 20

setContentView(_surfaceView);

}

}

Table 1-1. onCreate method, lines description

Line Description

Calls onCreate method of the super class Activity , which
takes Bundle as argument

1.

Requests an OpenGL surface view by calling the view con-
structor GLSurfaceView, which takes Context as argument

2.

Sets the version of OpenGL ES (in this case, ES 2.0) that will be
used by the current context's surface view

3.

Starts a separate renderer thread that will cause the rendering
(drawing) to begin

4.

setContentView method sets _surfaceView object as
the content view

5.

Because the GLSurfaceView class is not yet imported ( Figure 1-15 ), press Ctrl
and 1 for quick fixing errors as shown in Figure 1-16 . (“Quick fix” is a commonly
used problem correction tool in Eclipse.) SDK will import the class, and you will
then see only 1 error.