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This might totally be my fault but I am trying to render a simple opengl scene on a galaxy s3, things work perfectly fine on a note 4 but this s3 is giving me some real issues.

First I had to remove all calls that used Vertex Array Objects to get rid of calling unimplemented ES API


but this is just strange.


my includes




#include "SDL.h"

#include "SDL_opengles2.h"



SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_CONTEXT_PROFILE_MASK, SDL_GL_CONTEXT_PROFILE_ES);
        SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_CONTEXT_MAJOR_VERSION, 2);
        SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_CONTEXT_MINOR_VERSION, 0);
        SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_DOUBLEBUFFER, 1);


        SDL_GetDisplayMode(0, 0, &sdpm);
        i_width = sdpm.w;
        i_height = sdpm.h;


        window = SDL_CreateWindow(title, SDL_WINDOWPOS_CENTERED, SDL_WINDOWPOS_CENTERED, i_width, i_height, SDL_WINDOW_OPENGL | SDL_WINDOW_SHOWN);



this is all that I am calling in my render function


glClearColor(1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);

SDL_GL_SwapWindow(window);



Doing that above code and rendering on one of my devices, the screen isn't red it's a hot pink, like the old school texture atlas background color.


If I rotate the phone, for that split second when the screen is rotating I can see the red background.


I am not sure what's going on or how to debug this, any tips?

Try adding these lines just before creating the window and context:
SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_RED_SIZE, 5);
SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_GREEN_SIZE, 6);
SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_BLUE_SIZE, 5);


(or 8, 8, 8, rather than 5, 6, 5.)

If that works, it sounds like you could be encountering this bug: https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2291

@Alex

Using 565 worked like a charm, I guess it is that bug. I have a international galaxy s3.


Is there any way to detect this from within code? Is it safe just to always use 565? What if I deploy an app, is this safe?


On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Alex Szpakowski wrote: