Metal

Metal API

Metal is a low-level graphics and compute API created by Apple and is the default API on MacOS and iOS devices.

Metal has been available since June 2 2014 on iOS devices powered by Apple A7 or later and sice June 8 2015 on MacOS running OS X El capitan.

Evergine uses Metal API on MacOS and iOS devices like iPhone and IPad but also supports Vulkan graphics API on those platforms through MoltenVK which allows to convert a subset of Vulkan API to run on top of Metal on MacOS and iOS operating systems.

Supported Metal devices

  • MacOS x64/x86/ARM64 desktop
  • iOS iPhone and iPad

Checking Metal version

It is the default graphics API used on iOS and MacOS devices and Apple updates through updates. To make sure you have the latest version just update to the latest OS version.

Create a Graphics Context

To create a graphics context based on Metal just write:

GraphicsContext graphicsContext = new Evergine.Metal.MTLGraphicsContext();
graphicsContext.CreateDevice();

Build & Run

The project template will be available soon.