README.md
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2Android BasicRenderScript Sample
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5This sample demonstrates using RenderScript to perform basic image manipulation. Specifically, it allows users
6to dynamically adjust the saturation for an image using a slider. A custom RenderScript kernel performs the saturation
7adjustment, running the computation on the device\'s GPU or other compute hardware as deemed appropriate by the system.
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9Introduction
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12[RenderScript][1] is a framework for running computationally intensive tasks at high performance on Android. RenderScript is
13primarily oriented for use with data-parallel computation, although serial computationally intensive workloads can
14benefit as well.
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16The RenderScript runtime will parallelize work across all processors available on a device, such as multi-core CPUs,
17GPUs, or DSPs, allowing you to focus on expressing algorithms rather than scheduling work or load balancing.
18RenderScript is especially useful for applications performing image processing, computational photography, or computer
19vision.
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21This sample demonstrates the fundamentals of writing a RenderScript compute kernel, and using it to perform basic image
22manipulation. In this case, each pixel is transformed based on a liner interpolation between its original
23RGB 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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28Pre-requisites
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31- Android SDK v23
32- Android Build Tools v23.0.0
33- Android Support Repository
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35Screenshots
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38<img src="screenshots/main.png" height="400" alt="Screenshot"/>
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40Getting Started
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43This 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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46Support
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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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52If you've found an error in this sample, please file an issue:
53https://github.com/googlesamples/android-BasicRenderScript
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55Patches are encouraged, and may be submitted by forking this project and
56submitting a pull request through GitHub. Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for more details.
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58License
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61Copyright 2014 The Android Open Source Project, Inc.
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63Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor
64license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for
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67use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
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70http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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