[Android] Add initial support of the platform #3755
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GLFW need to be removed from the build system and also the link libraries are different from the desktop machine as it uses a different type of toolchain/libc++/etc.
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I added a new tag [Android] as this is a new platform, but I can rename it to [Linux] if needed. Also, for testing, this is what I'm currently using: |
| @@ -68,6 +85,9 @@ void VulkanProgramImpl::materialize_runtime(MemoryPool *memory_pool, | |||
| *result_buffer_ptr = (uint64 *)memory_pool->allocate( | |||
| sizeof(uint64) * taichi_result_buffer_entries, 8); | |||
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| // TODO: Support for Android if possible... Should we move this code to be the | |||
| // responsability of the caller to this library? | |||
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When embedded in other applications the design is to leave the creation of VkDevice and related states to the caller/host. VulkanDeviceCreator is only used when Taichi is running on its own.
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Perfect, thanks! that works for me :), I updated the comment to match this behavior, let me know if you prefer to complete remove it.
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I think it's good for now!
* No GUI support at the moment * Forcing Vulkan to 1.2 for compatibility * Disabling all the extensions except required one for computing (surface, swapchain, ...) * No support of traceback: execinfo.h is not supported on Android but could be re-implemented with libunwind * No support of logging: need to adapt the logger to use logcat
Related issue = #3679
This is an initial support so a lot of features are not supported yet such as the logging with logcat or traceback.