Android 3D graphics and SurfaceView

If you want to use OpenGL/ES, you have to use a SurfaceView class. The problem is that there are various parameters for the SurfaceView class. This, for example may work fine in the emulator:

getHolder().setType(android.view.SurfaceHolder.SURFACE_TYPE_NORMAL);

on a real device, however, you may get a blank screen, or very slow redraws, so you should use this:

getHolder().setType(android.view.SurfaceHolder.SURFACE_TYPE_GPU);

or even this:

getHolder().setType(android.view.SurfaceHolder.SURFACE_TYPE_HARDWARE);

So i came up with this solution for the SurfaceView initialization:

public GameSurfaceView(Context context,GameOverlay overlay,Sound soundManager)
{
super(context);
this.soundManager = soundManager;
this.context = context;
this.overlay = overlay;
this.viewType = GLThread.VIEW_INTRO;
this.gameType = Game.GAME_MONOLITH;
getHolder().addCallback(this);
try
{
getHolder().setType(android.view.SurfaceHolder.SURFACE_TYPE_GPU);
}
catch(Exception e)
{
try
{
getHolder().setType(android.view.SurfaceHolder.SURFACE_TYPE_HARDWARE);
}
catch(Exception e2)
{
try
{
getHolder().setType(android.view.SurfaceHolder.SURFACE_TYPE_NORMAL);
}
catch(Exception e3)
{
}
}
}
}

So in the code above, we first try to get a hardware accelerated surface (fastest), if that fails a gpu memory surface(still fast) and if that fails a normal software surface.