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Android surfaceflinger RenderEngine explained

SurfaceFlinger uses RenderEngine to compose client buffers. RenderEngine abstracts several drawing libraries and provides interface function drawLayers(). There are four types of RenderEngine defined on AOSP.

  • THREADED
  • SKIA_GL
  • SKIA_GL_THREADED
  • GLES
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Ubuntu24.04: vscode-server glibc prerequisites Error in July 2025

After automatic updating to following VSCode version, vscode-server RemoteSSH connection fails. Error description says that GLIBC version of Ubuntu24.04 dosen't satisfiy prerequisite of vscode-server running machine but it's not case. At first, I tried installing musl package from apt command but it didn't help because another linker error ocuured after installing musl.

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Android13/Ubuntu AOSP "libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file"

When I built AOSP android-13.0.0_r80 on Ubuntu machine as usual, "libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file" stopped build at the beginning of build.

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repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b android-13.0.0_r84
repo sync
source build/envsetup.sh
lunch sdk_car_...
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