Developing with Vulkan on Apple iOS
Vulkan Portability is a Khronos initiative to promote the consistent use of Vulkan functionality that is layered over other underlying APIs to enable the portable deployment of Vulkan applications on platforms without Vulkan native drivers, such as Apple’s macOS and iOS. In March 2024, Richard Wright from LunarG updated the State of Vulkan on Apple Devices white paper to reflect the latest availability of the Vulkan SDK on Apple platforms, and its ability to be used to develop applications that are fully compatible with the Apple App Store.
In this tutorial, Khronos member Steve Winston of Holochip uses the latest Khronos Vulkan samples to illustrate how to work with Vulkan on iOS.
Diligent Engine lightweight cross-platform abstraction layer for Vulkan, OpenGL and OpenGL ES
In a recent update,
Diligent Engine now gives applications direct control of state transitions in Vulkan API and DirectX12. Diligent Engine includes support for Vulkan and OpenGL 4.2 on Win32 and Linux, as well as OpenGL ES 3.0 on iOS and OpenGL 4.1 on macOS.
Vulkan Applications Enabled on Apple Platforms
The Khronos Group announces that the Vulkan Working Group's Portability Initiative has been working with Khronos members Valve, LunarG, and The Brenwill Workshop to enable Vulkan applications to be ported to Apple platforms. The
Vulkan Portability resource page links to a collection of free and open source set of tools, SDKs, and runtime libraries to enable Vulkan development on macOS and deployment on macOS and iOS platforms. Valve is extending Dota 2 using the Vulkan tools on macOS to
achieve significantly higher performance than native OpenGL drivers. Vulkan support for Dota 2 on macOS will be released in the coming months as a free update.
Vulkan Applications Enabled on Apple Platforms
The Khronos Group announces that the Vulkan Working Group’s Portability Initiative has been working with Khronos members Valve, LunarG, and The Brenwill Workshop to enable Vulkan applications to be ported to Apple platforms. The Vulkan Portability resource page links to a collection of free and open source set of tools, SDKs, and runtime libraries to enable Vulkan development on macOS and deployment on macOS and iOS platforms. Valve is extending Dota 2 using the Vulkan tools on macOS to achieve significantly higher performance than native OpenGL drivers. Vulkan support for Dota 2 on macOS will be released in the coming months as a free update.
LunarG releases the first Vulkan SDK for Mac
Valve, LunarG, and the Brenwill Workshop join forces with Khronos to release the first open source SDK for Mac. For more information about the partnership that made this SDK possible, read the
Khronos press release. This SDK supports Vulkan API revision 1.0.69 on macOS (MoltenVK subset).