Android — GLSurfaceView EGL_BAD_ALLOC

Question

My program switches between two Activities that each inflate a derived GLSurfaceView that uses VBOs. After switching back and forth between the two

Answer 1

Annoyingly I can't post a comment yet, but I think you mean onResume, not onRestart. Your Activity can be paused without being stopped, which would cause onPause, but not onRestart.

This image (from the Activity docs) shows this activity life cycle very nicely:

In short, remember to pass onPause and onResume to both your super and to the GLSurfaceView.

From http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/04/introducing-glsurfaceview.html:

public class ClearActivity extends Activity {
    ... snip ...

    @Override
    protected void onPause() {
        super.onPause();
        mGLView.onPause();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onResume() {
        super.onResume();
        mGLView.onResume();
    }

    private GLSurfaceView mGLView;
}