Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...

This morning, the Khronos group announced some big advances in the OpenGL ecosystem. Including the fact that Android L integrates OpenGL ES 3.1 with AES. This is a big deal as these are all 3D ...

Eric is a freelance writer and an OG 'round these parts. Since leaving Android Police, his work has been in Lifehacker, The New York Times, OneZero, PCMag, and a bunch of other places. Catch him on ...

Tessellation is a hardware feature that allows a graphics processing unit (GPU) to dynamically subdivide primitives. This feature also allows you to control new vertex placements. One common use of ...

When Vulkan first hit the scene back in 2015, it was all over the place in terms of hardware and software support. Now that more parties have begun implementing and using it, however, things are ...

Graphics hardware is getting better for mobile devices. But the software that makes use of that hardware is just as important when it comes to getting outstanding polygonal images to run on a wide ...

The next generation processor war is definitely on, we’ve already had a look at the promising big.LITTLE A53/A57 combination, and now its Qualcomm’s turn to hint at what it has up its sleeve for the ...

3DMark, one of the industry’s leading gaming benchmark companies, has just released a new graphics benchmark for Android devices named Sling Shot, which tests your device against a range of OpenGL ES ...

When developing an Android* application, you usually need to test, optimize, and debug on many different platforms. While basically every hardware and chip manufacturer provides a set of custom tools ...