Hardware Accelerated Live Wallpaper

Question

I am trying to create a Live Wallpaper that can use the HArdware acceleration on sdk 14. But the Live wallpaper that I create uses:

Canvas canvas = surfaceHolder.lockCanvas(); 

And Romain Guy has already mentioned that the Canvas created by such methods is not hardware accelerated. So, is there an alternative way to create Canvas for LWP?

ps I do not use any unsupported hardware-accelerated canvas methods.

Answer 1

Consider using a graphics engine such as AndEngine. Using AndEngine, your privacy is hardware accelerated, and you have a good and flexible infrastructure.

Here's an example: Andengine Livewallpaper book example