Android OpenGL ES 2.0 OBJ Loader with Lambert Shading

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For this experiment I've developed my own OBJ parser in Java which support parsing of vertex positions, normals, texture coordinates and indices to remove duplicated vertices before uploading them to the vertex buffer object.
To test normals I've also implemented a simple lambert lighting system using OpenGL ES 2.0 GLSL shader language.

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