Update: We added the section Preview to visually demonstrate the capabilities. Recently, we have demonstrated how to integrate the RenderScript support library in Gradle-based projects. In this post, we will showcase the usefulness of having RenderScript available. A common design effect is to blur images for an exceptionally beautiful design. …

In comparison to the other mobile platforms, Android's Java is slow to run computationally intensive tasks. RenderScript offers a framework to efficiently compute algorithms by utilizing all processors. RenderScript is fairly new to Android and most of the APIs are only available for Android 4.3 (Jellybean) or newer. Fortunately, …