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 since June 8, 2015, on MacOS running OS X El Capitan.

Evergine uses the Metal API on MacOS and iOS devices like iPhone and iPad, but it also supports the Vulkan graphics API on these platforms through MoltenVK, which allows for the conversion of a subset of the 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

Metal is the default graphics API used on iOS and MacOS devices, and Apple provides updates through system updates. To ensure you have the latest version, simply 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.