matiasgoldberg, 1 month ago

@castano I never tried but I suspect it must be enabled the same way the validation layers are: You must include them in your jniLibs/arm64-v8a folder

matiasgoldberg, 1 month ago

@castano And you probably will also have to turn on useLegacyPackaging.

When it's off, *.so are loaded from the apk directly.
When it's on legacy, the *.so are first decompressed into a folder then loaded.

The latter works with a lot more tools since it's a regular folder and a regular file.

castano, 1 month ago

@matiasgoldberg I've tried bundling it in the APK, but running into some sort of linker error:

failed to load layer library '/data/app/com.ludicon.demo_spark_android/lib/arm64/libVkLayer_PowerVR_gpu_timestamps.so': dlopen failed: library "libdl.so.2" not found: needed by /data/app/com.ludicon.demo_spark_android/lib/arm64/libVkLayer_PowerVR_gpu_timestamps.so in namespace clns-4

castano, 1 month ago

@matiasgoldberg Oh, looks like these are linux only libraries. Looks like they don't provide them for Android :(

matiasgoldberg, 1 month ago

@castano libdl.so.2 is available on Android, but it is a system library.

That means (assuming it works on Android) the library would have to be installed on the system. You'd probably need root access.

amonakov, 1 month ago

@castano What. Why is it a layer. Is it because it adds overhead to everything.

castano, 1 month ago

@amonakov I do not know. PVR devices never had support for GPU timestamps neither in Vulkan nor GLES, but their profiler is able to record them. I imagine it's a performance, stability, or power issue.