Some time ago I’ve made a short post (here) about the basics of how to get opengl infos on an android device. For an app I’m currently working on it was required to get all interesting information once more in my android device information application. The basic idea is to add a respective opengl 1.1 or opengl 2.0 and possibly even opengl 3.0+ context to the active view, load all information in the onSurfaceCreate method of the renderer and remove the view afterwards again.

You’d use it appropriatelly like that in your activity:

Here is what I came up with:

Enjoy. (: