I have a question about texture compression for the Android platform. Since there is no standard hardware for the Android phone I am not sure what the best approach is for compressing textures.
There are lots of them available but I wanted to know is there anything that will help us to use say only one type of compression for almost all the devices?
however I know its quite difficult or even not possible!
I’m not sure whether DXT, PVRTC, ATC, ETC1, ETC2 one of them will work on all android phones.?
also physical size is concerned because total size goes over 75 MB, and if some atlases compressed by using PVRTC it goes to 43 MB, but hits performance, it increases levels loading time .
Any help will be appreciated
ECT1 is guarantee to work on any device. The main problem is that it doesn’t not supported alpha channel. So you need to create an Alpha8 texture if you have alpha in your texture.
You can choose other format, but you need to upload multiple APK on the Google Play Store.
ETC as Recommended Texture Compression, not support alpha channels. In DXT format Alpha channel is very good
In My game using ETC2
*this information based on my game , may vary for other games
File Size(KB) Format Supporting Devices Alpha Channels
21843 ASTC 1242 Good
22759 ATC 3144 Good
22860 DXT 992 Very Good
23021 ETC2 10271 Average
31598 Don’t Override 10271 Poor
31598 ETC1 10248 Bad
35933 PVRTC 2473 Bad
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