System and method for mobile device rendering engine for use with a data analytics environment

A method for providing a mobile device application with a high-performance rendering engine for use with data analytics, comprising:

• providing, at a mobile device that includes a graphics processing unit (GPU), a mobile application adapted to receive from a data analytics server, a data payload describing data associated with data analytics visualizations, wherein the server comprises data objects having dimensions associated therewith;
• and
• generating, by a rendering engine, interactive visualizations of the data using shaders and the device GPU, including wherein:
• each visualization type is associated with an associated shader that is called to render and/or update tiles associated with a visualization generated thereby;
• upon receipt of the data payload from the server, the rendering engine in response to a request to generate a visualization of a data payload, for display at a user interface of the mobile device, determines one or more shaders for use with the data payload to create a requested visualization, and passes a model associated with the data payload, to its associated shader, to populate the visualization;
• wherein interactions with a visualization are transformed and communicated to a shader and the GPU to render an updated visualization, including that user interaction with a visualization is interpreted by the rendering engine as transformations or deltas of an original presentation of the visualization, and communicated to the associated shader to cause the GPU to render an updated visualization.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having instructions thereon, which when read and executed by a mobile device that includes a graphics processing unit (GPU), causes the mobile device to perform a method comprising:

• receiving, at a mobile application, from a data analytics server, a data payload describing data associated with data analytics visualizations, wherein the server comprises data objects having dimensions associated therewith;
• and
• generating, by a rendering engine, interactive visualizations of the data using shaders and the device GPU, including wherein:
• each visualization type is associated with an associated shader that is called to render and/or update tiles associated with a visualization generated thereby;
• upon receipt of the data payload from the server, the rendering engine in response to a request to generate a visualization of a data payload, for display at a user interface of the mobile device, determines one or more shaders for use with the data payload to create a requested visualization, and passes a model associated with the data payload, to its associated shader, to populate the visualization;
• wherein interactions with a visualization are transformed and communicated to a shader and the GPU to render an updated visualization, including that user interaction with a visualization is interpreted by the rendering engine as transformations or deltas of an original presentation of the visualization, and communicated to the associated shader to cause the GPU to render an updated visualization.