“Want better games on your Android phone? They may be coming sooner now, at least for Android 2.0 models. Google has let programmers tap directly into mobile phone graphics power by releasing a third version of its Android Native Developer Kit on Monday.”
I love Android, but this update is long overdue.
Lack of GL ES 2.0 has not been the major blocker of decent gaming content or even half-way decent ports. The killer has been that the ndk doesn’t allow using of hardware floating-points to be used (because not all android devices have it, and I guess they don’t have means of differentiating those yet in the marketplace), making porting efforts (of games, but also tools/frameworks etc.) from other platforms considerably harder to perform, at least anything more (technically) complex than a tetris..