Now that EGL is ours rather than GLSurfaceView's, the swap interval can be set,
so turning vsync off (and fast-forward without skipping flips) works on Android
GL too. Not in VR, where OpenXR presents, and not with a config whose minimum
swap interval is 1.
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The EGL path from the previous commit is now the only one, so GLSurfaceView
and everything that existed to serve it are gone:
- NativeRenderer.java and NativeGLSurfaceView.java, deleted.
- The javaGL branches in PpssppActivity. GL and Vulkan now share one
lifecycle: a plain SurfaceView, startRenderLoopThread() when the surface
arrives, joinRenderLoopThread() when it goes away.
- The "androidJavaGL" queryConfig, and the AndroidNativeEGL setting and its
developer-tools checkbox.
- displayInit/displayRender, and with them the "Second time, joining the
emuthread and starting it up again" dance - restarting the emu thread from
inside a JNI callback because a lost context was only observable as a
second onSurfaceCreated.
- GraphicsContext::NotifyContextLost, which existed solely because that join
drained the render queue on a thread with no current context. The render
thread now joins the emu thread with the context still current, so the
drain is real work and nothing has to be skipped.
- g_emuThread, now that nothing starts an emu thread outside the render loop.
Three things displayInit/displayRender did that nothing else did, moved
rather than dropped:
- EnterVR and the per-frame StartVRRender/UpdateVRInput/FinishVRRender hooks
now live in RenderLoopThread's GL branch. Java's GL thread could simply
return early and wait for the next vsync when the VR session was inactive;
this loop drives itself, so that case sleeps 16ms instead of spinning.
Not tested - no headset here.
- RECREATE_VIEWS after the emu thread starts, as before. Vulkan never did
this, so it's a candidate for removal when the two paths converge.
- The thin3d error callback, which surfaces GL errors as OSD messages. That
one moved into AndroidEGLGraphicsContext::InitSurface, next to the rest of
the context's own setup, matching WindowsGLContext.
Tested on a nubia Z2464N (Unisoc UMS9632, Mali-G57, Android 15): cold start,
UI, booting a homebrew, backgrounding and resuming both in the menu and
in-game, and a density change, which destroys and recreates the activity the
way a rotation does. Every cycle tears the EGL context down and builds a new
one, and the renderer comes back with FBOs and textures intact. The config
ladder's first choice, RGBA8888 D24S8, is what the Java chooser landed on
here too.
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First step towards removing JavaGL. The point isn't EGL itself - it's who
owns the render thread. With GLSurfaceView, Java creates the thread and the
context and calls us back, so a lost context is only observable after the
fact as a second onSurfaceCreated. That's what forces displayInit to tear
down and restart the emu thread from inside a JNI callback, and to call
NotifyContextLost first because the queue is about to be drained on a thread
with no context. None of that is needed when we own EGL: the render thread
joins the emu thread itself, with the context still current, so the drain is
real work rather than something to skip.
AndroidEGLGraphicsContext subclasses OpenGLGraphicsContext (whose own
InitSurface assumes someone else already made a context current) and adds
display/config/surface/context plus a swap function. With it, GL reuses the
Vulkan lifecycle wholesale: queryConfig("androidJavaGL") returns false, so
Java builds a plain SurfaceView and starts the native render loop when a
surface arrives - including all of the surface/pause ordering fixes from the
previous branch. runVulkanRenderLoop/requestExitVulkanRenderLoop are now
runRenderLoop/requestExitRenderLoop and serve both backends; the thread they
spawn branches on NeedsSeparateEmuThread, because the two backends split the
work in opposite directions (Vulkan: this thread is the main loop and the
render manager spawns the render thread; GL: this thread *is* the render
thread and spawns the emu thread).
Deliberately a port, not an improvement:
- GLES client version still follows NativeRenderer - 3 for VR, 2 otherwise.
Not a cap; GLES3 is detected from GL_VERSION at runtime.
- No swap-interval function. GLSurfaceView gave us no way to set one, so
PresentMode::IMMEDIATE has always been ignored here, and honoring it now
would be a behavior change. Worth revisiting once this path is the only one.
The config ladder does take the user's word that Mali 400 and the Xperia Play
are no longer a factor: it asks for RGBA8888/D24S8 and falls back twice,
rather than reproducing GLSurfaceView's ask-for-nothing default that the
comments in PpssppActivity.onCreate exist to explain. ANativeWindow's format
is set from EGL_NATIVE_VISUAL_ID, which is the proper fix for the EGL_BAD_MATCH
those comments describe.
Off by default, behind Developer tools / Graphics / "Use native EGL instead
of GLSurfaceView" (OpenGL backend, Android only). Needs an app restart, since
the context is chosen in NativeApp.init.
Builds for arm64-v8a and on Windows; NOT yet run on a device.
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