I'm a bit confused about using this function. I find a lot of posts where it is used like

glDeleteTextures(1, &textureName);

However, in Android the function doesn't accept an int as the second parameter but an IntBuffer.
What is an IntBuffer? How can I just pass a single texture name for deletion to this function?

ByteBuffers and related subtypes (FloatBuffer, IntBuffer, ShortBuffer, etc) are how data (vertex position, colours, texCoords, normals, texture data) is passed to OpenGL.

In this instance, what you want to do is

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IntBuffer ib = ByteBuffer.allocateDirect( 4 ).order( ByteOrder.nativeOrder() ).asIntBuffer();
ib.put( 0, texID );
glDeleteTextures( 1, ib );


You can also use gl.glDeleteTextures(int, int[], int) to delete a texture by id (just give it a one element array for the second arg)