Alternative to surfaceview

[amit jain]

Dear All,

 

In ContentViewRenderView.java surfaceView is being used.

class ContentViewRenderView extends FrameLayout{

private int mNativeContentViewRenderView = 0;

private SurfaceView mSurfaceView;

 

SurfaceView consumes large power and a drain on battery. In some normal single activity apps takeSurface() method is useful but

in chromium if I try content view seems to be taking owner ship of entire window so my address bar etc are not visible any more.

 

Does any one have idea about how to get rid of surface view so that other app parts are not affected.

 

TIA

Amit

 

 

 

 

[Alexandre Elias]

Chromium for Android's rendering model is to issue OpenGL ES on a native side thread.  So if you want to mix it with Java Views, the only options are SurfaceView or TextureView.

I don't believe SurfaceView is a significant power drain on devices that allocate a hardware overlay for it.  Are you targeting a device unable to do so?  You can check using 'adb shell dumpsys SurfaceFlinger'.

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Alex

 

 

 

 

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[Amit Jain]

Removal of surface view and using takeSurface() instead actually works provided the other view is added via windowManager.

I had to tweak with window manager layout parameters.

I tried the dumpsys surfaceflinger , but could not interpret the output :-)