Android 7.0 Nougat Released

[Pringo]

https://www.android.com/versions/nougat-7-0/

[degasus]

So? What do you want to tell us?

[Pringo]

(08-23-2016, 03:25 PM)degasus Wrote: So? What do you want to tell us?

I thought Android 7.0 would be of interest to a number of users on this board and posted it in case they didn't see the news elsewhere.

[mbc07]

Unless it magically comes with good GPU drivers on every device receiving the update it probably won't help with Dolphin's Android port...

[degasus]

There is indeed a good point in android N. It brings ES3.2 and Vulkan support in Java. We use neither, but it has the same requirement and is a good reason to update the GPU drivers. So the chances that vendor update their drivers is now bigger than 0. But likely not that much :/

[Abz145]

Indeed, Android N has been released. As degasus said it probably wont help too much as GLES3.2 & Vulkan are already implemented in a different way. The latter being in development by stenzek. However, i have more hope for Dolphin on Android then ever before as the Note 7 and S7 (820) perform decently when unexposed to the dvfs system which blocks off the cores and slows them down almost immediately. Thats why the minimize trick is used. When used, the game runs near full speed. Look forward to the New Nexus devices, lets hope Google dont mess it up, which is lol. Also dual source blending is on the way (i wouldn't say soon but its coming)

[Nintonito]

(08-23-2016, 05:51 PM)degasus Wrote: There is indeed a good point in android N. It brings ES3.2 and Vulkan support in Java. We use neither, but it has the same requirement and is a good reason to update the GPU drivers. So the chances that vendor update their drivers is now bigger than 0. But likely not that much :/

Qualcomm vendors are pretty aggressive with driver updates.  I'd say pretty much all the Qualcomm flagships getting 7.0 that have adreno 4xx chips will get the features.  It's the other vendors that are pretty grey (ARM likely won't have drivers that don't suck ready in time so OEM's will skip over.  Imagine has the drivers ready but lol nobody is using them).  So I'd say something like an HTC One M9 or LG G4 will see those features.