Hi every body!
I have a problem with some devices that doesn't support non power of two images, and I would like to know if a device support this kind of operations or not.

Thanks!

You can try querying the extensions string for GL_OES_texture_npot to see if it's supported, AFAIK no 1.x GL devices support NPOT textures.

ex:

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       String extensions = " " + gl.glGetString (GL10.GL_EXTENSIONS) + " ";

       if (extensions.contains (" GL_OES_texture_npot ") == false)
              ; // NPOT not supported


At the same time, it may be possible to load the NPOT Bitmap and then copy it into the a new Bitmap with the nearest POT dimensions, then use the new Bitmap to create the texture with texImage2D.

This could dramatically increase loading time however.

I haven't noticed much of an increase on loading times using this method as it's mostly using apis compiled in native code. However it will be a memory hog... if you've got a texture that's 257x257 pixels in size you will need to create a bitmap 512x512 pixels... that's a lot of wasted memory. You'd be better off putting all your images together into as few images as possible that already have power of two dimensions and use these as resources. This is called a Texture Atlas and there are many ways to do this manually or semi-automatically. You could even implement it in code and build them dynamically, but it's really just easier not to.