Shader Editor

- May 4, 2017

Everyone

( 391)

Description

This is open source:
https://github.com/markusfisch/ShaderEditor

* Live preview in background or on an extra screen
* Syntax highlighting
* Error highlighting
* FPS display
* Use any shader as live wallpaper
* Exposure of hardware sensors
* Support for wallpaper offset
* Exposure of battery level
* Supports multiple touches
* Previous rendered frame in backbuffer texture
* Import and use arbitrary textures
* Disables rendering when battery is low

Some devices limit GPU usage to consume less power when not plugged in. Always check the performance with the soft keyboard hidden and the power cord off. A shader should make at least around 30 fps to not slow down the UI if you intend to use it as a live wallpaper.

Unfortunately error information is disabled on some devices (e.g. Huawei Ideos X3, Asus Transformer). Error highlighting/reporting is not possible on these devices.

Please report bugs here:
https://github.com/markusfisch/ShaderEditor/issues

Reviews

4.7

391 total

5 325

4 37

3 19

2 3

1 7

Anton Roy

it's really cool to play with shader while I ride the train home The other day, I even made a micro game thanks to the previous frame option!

Raf Loca

Great app, fun to use in the bus... the thing is, you can't set your GLSL shader programs as wallpaper...

James Ko

So cool! I'm writing an app of my own that offers code editing and I found this inspirational.

Mattias Selin

Perfect.

So far the app has worked great, my only complaint is that the editor won't capture tabs from a bluetooth keyboard. It can get annoying having to press the tab button on-screen.

Sergii Pylypenko

The idea is so silly, I love it. No way to make a fire shader though, as this requires saving state of fire particles between frames.

User reviews

Anton Roy May 13, 2017

it's really cool to play with shader while I ride the train home The other day, I even made a micro game thanks to the previous frame option!

Raf Loca May 26, 2017

Great app, fun to use in the bus... the thing is, you can't set your GLSL shader programs as wallpaper...

James Ko June 18, 2017

So cool! I'm writing an app of my own that offers code editing and I found this inspirational.

Mattias Selin June 4, 2017

Perfect.

March 28, 2017

So far the app has worked great, my only complaint is that the editor won't capture tabs from a bluetooth keyboard. It can get annoying having to press the tab button on-screen.

Sergii Pylypenko March 2, 2017

The idea is so silly, I love it. No way to make a fire shader though, as this requires saving state of fire particles between frames.

Crafted TV January 2, 2017

Please add tutorial Great app guys but is there any way i can exactly learn about all operators. I do not really understand all of them. How can I contact you? Thank you!

Geoff Rogers December 1, 2016

Great Execution Simple UI that gets out of the way, and is super helpful. Great app to learn about shaders with. *Note: Options to view line numbers and to turn on line wrapping would be really awesome. Also, an undo button would be great.

Alexandre Courbot October 6, 2016

Best of its kind Hours of fun with this little app, and it is so well designed that audiences can have fun watching the shader come together too. Plus, it's open-source, non-intrusive, and without crappy ads or in-app purchases. 5 stars!

Stanislav Maslovski November 12, 2016

Please improve the editor It is a nice toy, but please invest some more time into the editor! At least, add options to load and save files, and also an autosave function to protect from loosing the entered text when accidentially tapping the back button!

Selim Abidin October 2, 2016

best shader app i code shader instead of playing game on my phone. I wish we could have some documentation about supported methods and a social network that we can share our shader apps. but still great app. thanks

Andriy Nych December 16, 2016

Totally awesome tool and/or game app. Please consider save/load shaders from file to make it more friendly.

Oliver Cristian September 16, 2016

New Feature This an awesome app, but can u add just a basic tutorial to learn some of the basic? Pls

Jose Archundia-Adriano January 18, 2017

👍 Great app. I would recommend adding a way to rename the shaders though. Or if there is, I couldn't find it. Also, being able to import code from a .txt file would be nice

Brandon Coffman December 29, 2016

Mwhahaha now I can edit all my shaders on the go and play with a nice pointer feature andddd to make them a live wallpaper, icing on the cake for sure.

Enis Hyseni November 6, 2016

Minds like these ... I gave you 5 star even without trying the app. Just the idea itself is worth 5 stars.

Jens Pitkänen November 26, 2016

Really fun Now this is what I call wallpaper customization. Had a blast making a wallpaper exactly how I like it.

Cameron Bennett November 15, 2016

Awesome Clever little app. Now I need to learn openGL shading lol.

Peter Whidden December 27, 2016

Best made app I've downloaded in years Beautiful design, amazing features and works great!

Kees Rijnen January 15, 2017

Fun! Nicely done. Being able to run the result as a live background makes this super fun to experiment with.

Petar Dimitrov January 30, 2017

11/10 no ads, genius design, awesome features. Do reccomend.

Tsing Gu December 2, 2016

One of the best editors, supports lots of uniforms. It would be even better with vim mode.

Ben Bakewell January 28, 2017

¡OM J!¡It is so good and it makes my "to good to delete this unless I HAVE to . . . " list!

Дмитрий Гордин December 13, 2016

wow!

Toby Cathcart Burn December 13, 2016

Love it So many fractals, lots of fun.

Raghav Shankar December 13, 2016

A great way to fiddle with fragment shaders.

Joakim Mellergård November 27, 2016

Really great editor

Alfred Engstromer December 19, 2016

Extremely fun Moast usefull

Pierfrancesco Soffritti December 5, 2016

Love it Terrific idea

Vladimir Radakovic November 17, 2016

Brilliant State of art

waterdaan September 30, 2016

Wooow

John AA January 6, 2017

Awesome

Khaibit86 March 6, 2016

Pass our own textures in? Please? :)

David Wilson March 8, 2016

Amazing! Exactly what I was after.

josh thomson June 15, 2016

Good Job.

Yxtoxfjxi Xfjxitxir April 6, 2016

Awesome!

Christian Vallentin April 19, 2016

5 Stars Must Have & Idea As an OpenGL and GLSL programmer this is an amazing must have app!

Bryden B. April 11, 2015

Great app but update caused some issues This is the best shader sandbox I've used on Android but the latest update seems to have broken backbuffer effects. Simple effects like Conway's Game of Life are flickering badly on both my Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 2013 but worked fine before. EDIT: Update fixed the issue works great now.

Markus Fisch March 25, 2015

Thanks for the feedback. The most recent update, Version 1.6.3 from March 22, should fix this issue.

William Kappler November 17, 2015

This is a great program for playing with shaders on a phone. The uniforms help make some very interesting examples. However, to the developer, I want to point out a bug in your default shader. Your UV coordinates are calculated as: vec2 uv = gl_FragCoord.xy / resolution.xy; However, FragCoord is zero-indexed, and resolution is not. Doing this causes the UVs to be 1 pixel off in x and y, towards the top right of the screen. This is especially obvious when using the backbuffer as it causes the backbuffer to "bleed" towards the top-right. I suggest using the following instead: vec2 uv = gl_FragCoord.xy / ( resolution.xy - vec2( 1.0, 1.0 ) );

Jonathan Lidbeck July 3, 2015

GLSL Edit and preview shader code, and seamlessly use your scripts as dynamic wallpaper, responsive to touch. Editor is basic but functional--no file/open, autocomplete, or language help--but the live preview is nice. The wallpaper widget in particular makes this a must-have for any GLSL programmer.