OpenGL Deprecation Announcement: How will this affect current apps relying on OpenGL

[reyanthonyrenacia]

Guys, you must’ve heard that OpenGL will now be deprecated. Apple will now be using Metal instead and I think for Android (not entirely sure), Vulkan will be the alternative. How is this going to affect the current games using OpenGL library? Will they suddenly crash and not work?

To Cocos2d-x team: What are you guys doing to meet this coming change?
#longLiveCocos2dX

[slackmoehrle]

There is already a long thread about this and what we will do. Please refer to that.

OpenGL Deprecation -> What it means for the future of Cocos2d-x

Apple announcing the deprecation of OpenGL ES in iOS 12 has some effects on the future of Cocos2d-x and Cocos Creator. The deprecation means: Metal will be supported before OpenGL ES is removed. We will work towards Vulkan on Android This will be done in the current v3 branch of Cocos2d-x. OpenGL will still be an available backend option until devices that support it are “older” This means it will be possible in the future to support different backends. Like bgfx does now.