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@@ -35,8 +35,9 @@
     <strings>
         <intro>
             <![CDATA[
-            BasicRenderScript sample demonstrates basic steps how to use renderScript.
-			In the sample, it performs graphical filter operation on a image with renderScript.
+            This sample demonstrates using RenderScript to perform basic image manipulation. Specifically, it allows users
+            to dynamically adjust the saturation for an image using a slider. A custom RenderScript kernel performs the saturation
+            adjustment, running the computation on the device's GPU or other compute hardware as deemed appropriate by the system.
             ]]>
         </intro>
     </strings>
@@ -44,4 +45,48 @@
     <template src="base"/>
     <common src="media"/>
 
+    <metadata>
+        <status>PUBLISHED</status>
+        <categories>RenderScript</categories>
+        <technologies>Android</technologies>
+        <languages>Java</languages>
+        <solutions>Mobile</solutions>
+        <level>EXPERT</level>
+        <icon>screenshots/icon-web.png</icon>
+        <screenshots>
+            <img>screenshots/main.png</img>
+        </screenshots>
+        <api_refs>
+            <android>android.renderscript.RenderScript</android>
+            <android>android.renderscript.Allocation</android>
+        </api_refs>
+
+        <description>
+<![CDATA[
+This sample demonstrates using RenderScript to perform basic image manipulation. Specifically, it allows users
+to dynamically adjust the saturation for an image using a slider. A custom RenderScript kernel performs the saturation
+adjustment, running the computation on the device's GPU or other compute hardware as deemed appropriate by the system.
+]]>
+        </description>
+
+        <intro>
+<![CDATA[
+[RenderScript][1] is a framework for running computationally intensive tasks at high performance on Android. RenderScript is
+primarily oriented for use with data-parallel computation, although serial computationally intensive workloads can
+benefit as well.
+
+The RenderScript runtime will parallelize work across all processors available on a device, such as multi-core CPUs,
+GPUs, or DSPs, allowing you to focus on expressing algorithms rather than scheduling work or load balancing.
+RenderScript is especially useful for applications performing image processing, computational photography, or computer
+vision.
+
+This sample demonstrates the fundamentals of writing a RenderScript compute kernel, and using it to perform basic image
+manipulation. In this case, each pixel is transformed based on a liner interpolation between its original
+RGB value and it's luminance (black-and-white) value, weighted based on the user's specified saturation target.
+
+[1]: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/renderscript/compute.html
+[2]: http://developer.android.com/reference/renderscript/rs__cl_8rsh.html#a254612a612ff7539b01a1478e03d8697
+]]>
+        </intro>
+    </metadata>
 </sample>