Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta

http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/01/25/google-finally-makes-it-easy-to-enable-webgl-support-in-latest-chrome-for-android-beta/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheNextWeb+%28The+Next+Web+All+Stories%29

by ljf • 13 years ago

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ljf• 13 years ago

Just been playing with the Quake 3 demo on my Nexus 4 and it looks stunning - really excited to see where this takes mobile casual games.

AndrewDucker• 13 years ago

Firefox for Android already supports WebGL - seems to work fine on my Galaxy Nexus.

patrickaljord• 13 years ago

I never got it working more than a few seconds without it crashing the whole browser.

stuaxo• 13 years ago

It's about time, I remember seeing Sony doing webgl on their experia android phones a while back

http://developer.sonymobile.com/2012/01/25/webgl-implementat...

dave1010uk• 13 years ago

Also, the Nokia N900's browser supported WebGL in 2009.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/03/nokia-n900-impressively-d...

nextparadigms3• 13 years ago

Well I wouldn't to see in Nokia's devices anymore anytime. Also these have all been just experiments. Even Apple has implemented part of WebGl in the iOS browser I think. But if Chrome beta has it, then the next stable version should have it, too.

otibom• 13 years ago

When is Chrome officially replacing the Android browser ?

josteink• 13 years ago

Hopefully after they've fixed the woeful performance which is plaguing it.

nextparadigms3• 13 years ago

It already has with Android 4.1. But manufacturers might keep customizing the previous open source browser instead, for the time being at least.

nodata4• 13 years ago

Are you sure? When I use the Google search widget to find something, the browser it gives me doesn't seem to be Chrome.

ConstantineXVI• 13 years ago

It's got noticeably better performance than Firefox for Android (on a N7, using [0] as a "benchmark"); but Chrome doesn't seem to have audio support.

EDIT: hm, Chrome doesn't seem to want to grab the audio at all; on both the pages I've tried, the audio downloads just hang as "Pending" in the inspector [1] [2]

[0] http://apps.playcanvas.com/will/doom3/gangnamstyle

[1] http://monosnap.com/image/5F201GaEW7UUfEZKOSfPjTLQW

[2] http://monosnap.com/image/G9U7tpuoCVlvMFli8NgOBB9tD

kayoone• 13 years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6js5K08m3g

Didnt realize that WebGL already is on such a good performance level on mobile devices, impressive and exciting!

jamesmiller5• 13 years ago

A really cool set of WebGL shader demos that also work.

http://www.iquilezles.org/apps/shadertoy/

bsenftner• 13 years ago

I hope this pressures Apple to support WebGL in iOS Safari.

randomfool• 13 years ago

I believe that they are waiting for arb_robustness.

http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/ARB/robustness.txt

MayorOfMonkeys• 13 years ago

Fascinating. Thanks for sharing the link to that extension. What makes you say Apple are waiting on this extension? I hadn't heard that before myself.

kevingadd• 13 years ago

How can Apple be waiting for a spec that was approved in 2010 when Apple writes and maintains their own GL implementations on all their platforms?

azakai• 13 years ago

The HN title is misleading. It is still not enabled by default, it just got easier to manually switch on, so it wasn't "added". Still, this is good progress.

coopaq• 13 years ago

chrome://flags

enable webgl

Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta

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