Another way of getting the maximum allowed size would be to loop through all EGL10 configurations and keep track of the largest size.
public static int getMaxTextureSize() {
// Safe minimum default size
final int IMAGE_MAX_BITMAP_DIMENSION = 2048;
// Get EGL Display
EGL10 egl = (EGL10) EGLContext.getEGL();
EGLDisplay display = egl.eglGetDisplay(EGL10.EGL_DEFAULT_DISPLAY);
// Initialise
int[] version = new int[2];
egl.eglInitialize(display, version);
// Query total number of configurations
int[] totalConfigurations = new int[1];
egl.eglGetConfigs(display, null, 0, totalConfigurations);
// Query actual list configurations
EGLConfig[] configurationsList = new EGLConfig[totalConfigurations[0]];
egl.eglGetConfigs(display, configurationsList, totalConfigurations[0], totalConfigurations);
int[] textureSize = new int[1];
int maximumTextureSize = 0;
// Iterate through all the configurations to located the maximum texture size
for (int i = 0; i < totalConfigurations[0]; i++) {
// Only need to check for width since opengl textures are always squared
egl.eglGetConfigAttrib(display, configurationsList[i], EGL10.EGL_MAX_PBUFFER_WIDTH, textureSize);
// Keep track of the maximum texture size
if (maximumTextureSize < textureSize[0])
maximumTextureSize = textureSize[0];
}
// Release
egl.eglTerminate(display);
// Return largest texture size found, or default
return Math.max(maximumTextureSize, IMAGE_MAX_BITMAP_DIMENSION);
}
From my testing, this is pretty reliable and doesn't require you to create an instance.
Performance-wise, this took 18 milliseconds to execute on my Note 2 and only 4 milliseconds on my G3.