WebGLGap: WebGL in PhoneGap

A Small research project released by Scirra (Makers of Construct 2 A visual HTML5 Game Development Tool) have released a plugin for PhoneGap called WebGLGap that exposes a subset of the WebGL Programming interface on mobile devices using PhoneGap.

With WebGl already installed (but disabled) on iOS and hopefully coming soon(-ish) on Android, this is a great way to start playing around with what’s possible.

Currently only a small subset of of WebGL is supported. See WebGLGap.js for the available interface.


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