Is turning off hardware acceleration the only way to actually use Genymotion with cordova/phonegap? I know this is probably a more general non-Ionic question, but I am curious to what others have done to address this issue
android:hardwareAccelerated=“false”
Let me be more specific, running on my retina macbook pro, latest version of OSX, 16GB RAM latest version of Genymotion and latest version of VirtualBox. I have an application with multiple images in a list view, I was forced to turn off hardware acceleration because there we multiple errors being thrown by the GL driver whenever the screen was rendered. I have googled and searched around so I know this is an issue because others have reported it, I am looking for an appropriate solution other than disabling hardware acceleration
I don’t know what you mean, friend… I’m using Genymotion with Ionic without any issue (besides it’s slower than my real phone but that’s expected)
What Genymotion image are you using? Since the images mirror native specs you may want to use a lower spec device.
In Genymotion I use a Nexus 4 with 4.4.4 OS. Works flawless on my Macbook Air.
01-26 15:13:07.117: E/eglCodecCommon(1265): **** ERROR unknown type 0x0 (glSizeof,73)
01-26 15:13:07.117: E/eglCodecCommon(1265): **** ERROR unknown type 0x0 (glSizeof,73)
01-26 15:13:07.321: E/eglCodecCommon(1265): **** ERROR unknown type 0x0 (glSizeof,73)
01-26 15:13:07.321: E/eglCodecCommon(1265): **** ERROR unknown type 0x0 (glSizeof,73)
01-26 15:13:07.661: E/eglCodecCommon(1265): **** ERROR unknown type 0x0 (glSizeof,73)
01-26 15:13:07.661: E/eglCodecCommon(1265): **** ERROR unknown type 0x0 (glSizeof,73)
01-26 15:13:07.813: E/eglCodecCommon(1265): **** ERROR unknown type 0x0 (glSizeof,73)
01-26 15:13:07.813: E/eglCodecCommon(1265): **** ERROR unknown type 0x0 (glSizeof,73)
01-26 15:13:08.025: E/eglCodecCommon(1265): **** ERROR unknown type 0x0 (glSizeof,73)
01-26 15:13:08.025: E/eglCodecCommon(1265): **** ERROR unknown type 0x0 (glSizeof,73)
01-26 15:13:08.089: E/eglCodecCommon(1265): **** ERROR unknown type 0x0 (glSizeof,73)
01-26 15:13:08.089: E/eglCodecCommon(1265): **** ERROR unknown type 0x0 (glSizeof,73)
01-26 15:13:08.361: E/eglCodecCommon(1265): **** ERROR unknown type 0x0 (glSizeof,73)
01-26 15:13:08.361: E/eglCodecCommon(1265): **** ERROR unknown type 0x0 (glSizeof,73)
01-26 15:13:08.661: E/eglCodecCommon(1265): **** ERROR unknown type 0x0 (glSizeof,73)
01-26 15:13:08.661: E/eglCodecCommon(1265): **** ERROR unknown type 0x0 (glSizeof,73)
01-26 15:13:08.973: E/eglCodecCommon(1265): **** ERROR unknown type 0x0 (glSizeof,73)
01-26 15:13:08.973: E/eglCodecCommon(1265): **** ERROR unknown type 0x0 (glSizeof,73)
after updating everything, Android/VirtualBox/Genymotion, still getting this error and it is unusable. I use a Nexus 4 with 4.4.4 OS API 19 osx 10.9.5 - 2.8GHz i7 w/16GB RAM
You didn’t answer what Nexus you are using. It matters because they all have different specs & screen resolutions and your GPU may not be able to handle it.
I use a Nexus 4 with 4.4.4 OS - either way, I am pretty certain the video driver on a retina mbp should be able to handle the device’s screen resolution Maybe I am wrong… but at his point, I am willing to try anything
Are you using a 13" MBP with Retina display? Those have integrated graphics chips. Most of the GPU goes towards crunching out the insane amount of pixels of the screen leaving you with very little for other graphics heavy applications.
A coworker of mine has the 13" and it struggled with Genymotion. Had to work with a low spec virtual device.
it is the 15in retina mbp in think there is enough graphics
Yea that is weird. I’m all out of ideas my friend 
My MBA has pretty low specs and I don’t see any problems with Genymotion.