Hardware-Accelerated Audio and Video
Hardware acceleration is used on Android devices for other purposes without any setting up or work on your part. As we discussed in Chapter 11 and Chapter 12, hardware acceleration is used to decode AAC audio and some video codecs. Limitations are a function of the device, its driver, and its hardware decoder.
It is not recommended that you play video and use GPU rendering at the same time.
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