I'm currently developing a small OpenGL game for the Android platform and I wonder if there's an easy way to render text on top of the rendered frame (like a HUD with the player´s score etc). The text would need to use a custom font also.
I've seen an example using a View as an overlay, but I don't know if I want to do that since I might want to port the game to other platforms later.
Any ideas?
In the OpenGL ES 2.0/3.0 you can also combining OGL View and Android's UI-elements:
public class GameActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
private SurfaceView surfaceView;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle state) {
setContentView(R.layout.activity_gl);
surfaceView = findViewById(R.id.oglView);
surfaceView.init(this.getApplicationContext());
...
}
}
public class SurfaceView extends GLSurfaceView {
private SceneRenderer renderer;
public SurfaceView(Context context) {
super(context);
}
public SurfaceView(Context context, AttributeSet attributes) {
super(context, attributes);
}
public void init(Context context) {
renderer = new SceneRenderer(context);
setRenderer(renderer);
...
}
}
Create layout activity_gl.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
tools:context=".activities.GameActivity">
<com.app.SurfaceView
android:id="@+id/oglView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"/>
<TextView ... />
<TextView ... />
<TextView ... />
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>
To update elements from the render thread, can use Handler/Looper.