GLSufaceView.Renderer

GLSurfaceView.Renderer

GLSurfaceView.Renderer is a generic render interface.

In your implementation of this renderer you should put all your calls to render a frame.
There are three functions to implement:

// Called when the surface is created or recreated.
public void onSurfaceCreated(GL10 gl, EGLConfig config)

// Called to draw the current frame.
public void onDrawFrame(GL10 gl)

// Called when the surface changed size.
public void onSurfaceChanged(GL10 gl, int width, int height)

onSurfaceCreated

Here it's a good thing to setup things that you don't change so often in the rendering cycle.

Stuff like what color to clear the screen with, enabling z-buffer and so on.

onDrawFrame

Here is where the actual drawing take place.

onSurfaceChanged

If your device supports flipping between landscape and portrait you will get a call to this function when it happens. What you do here is setting upp the new ratio.