The blurring is really fast since everything is fully hardware accelerated. The background View that is to be blurred is rendered into a SurfaceTexture using Surface.lockHardwareCanvas(). The SurfaceTexture is then blurred using a Guassian blur algorithm and rendered in a SurfaceView or TextureView using OpenGL.
BlurLibAndroid
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