Monthly Archives: May 2011

Using the GPU in Android to process live camera images

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Chris

Updated 18th May 2011 with a description of Android’s Renderscript feature. There has been a lot of research done in using GPUs (the Graphics Processing Units used for acceleration in video cards ) to build super computers. However there was an … Continue reading →

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Android – it all comes together in an open sandwich

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Chris

At Google’s developers conference Google IO 2011 they announced their roadmap for Android. Currently Google ships 2 versions of Android 2.3 Gingerbread an open source version suited to smartphones 3.0 Honeycomb suited to tablets and only available to OEMs They … Continue reading →

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