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Bug #4343984 TextureView can be used to render media content (video, OpenGL, RenderScript) inside a View. The key difference with SurfaceView is that TextureView does not create a new Surface. This gives the ability to seamlessly transform, animate, fade, etc. a TextureView, which was hard if not impossible to do with a SurfaceView. A TextureView also interacts perfectly with ScrollView, ListView, etc. It allows application to embed media content in a much more flexible way than before. For instance, to render the camera preview at 50% opacity, all you need to do is the following: mTextureView.setAlpha(0.5f); Camera c = Camera.open(); c.setPreviewTexture(mTextureView.getSurfaceTexture()); c.startPreview(); TextureView uses a SurfaceTexture to get the job done. More APIs are required to make it easy to create OpenGL contexts for a TextureView. It can currently be done with a bit of JNI code. Change-Id: Iaa7953097ab5beb8437bcbbfa03b2df5b7f80cd7