README.md
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2 Android BasicRenderScript Sample
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5 This sample demonstrates using RenderScript to perform basic image manipulation. Specifically, it allows users
6 to dynamically adjust the saturation for an image using a slider. A custom RenderScript kernel performs the saturation
7 adjustment, running the computation on the device\'s GPU or other compute hardware as deemed appropriate by the system.
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9 Introduction
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12 [RenderScript][1] is a framework for running computationally intensive tasks at high performance on Android. RenderScript is
13 primarily oriented for use with data-parallel computation, although serial computationally intensive workloads can
14 benefit as well.
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16 The RenderScript runtime will parallelize work across all processors available on a device, such as multi-core CPUs,
17 GPUs, or DSPs, allowing you to focus on expressing algorithms rather than scheduling work or load balancing.
18 RenderScript is especially useful for applications performing image processing, computational photography, or computer
19 vision.
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21 This sample demonstrates the fundamentals of writing a RenderScript compute kernel, and using it to perform basic image
22 manipulation. In this case, each pixel is transformed based on a liner interpolation between its original
23 RGB value and it's luminance (black-and-white) value, weighted based on the user's specified saturation target.
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25 [1]: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/renderscript/compute.html
26 [2]: http://developer.android.com/reference/renderscript/rs__cl_8rsh.html#a254612a612ff7539b01a1478e03d8697
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28 Pre-requisites
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31 - Android SDK 26
32 - Android Build Tools v26.0.1
33 - Android Support Repository
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35 Screenshots
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38 <img src="screenshots/main.png" height="400" alt="Screenshot"/>
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40 Getting Started
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43 This sample uses the Gradle build system. To build this project, use the
44 "gradlew build" command or use "Import Project" in Android Studio.
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46 Support
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49 - Google+ Community: https://plus.google.com/communities/105153134372062985968
50 - Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android
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52 If you've found an error in this sample, please file an issue:
53 https://github.com/googlesamples/android-BasicRenderScript
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55 Patches are encouraged, and may be submitted by forking this project and
56 submitting a pull request through GitHub. Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for more details.
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58 License
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61 Copyright 2017 The Android Open Source Project, Inc.
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