Vulkan is now the official graphics API for Android. Google’s biggest announcement today, ... (HAL) for Android, requiring all apps and games utilizing the phone’s GPU to do so through Vulkan.

New Android 16 devices have to support Host Image Copy, a Vulkan 1.4 feature that reduces stuttering, load times, and memory use in games.

Android has been leveraging the more efficient Vulcan API for many years. With Android 16’s new changes , Google is doubling down , requiring devices to support the new Host Image Copy feature.

Google released the first beta of Google Play Games on PC back in 2022, allowing you to play Android games on a PC. It has chugged along quietly ever since, mostly because of the anemic and ...

A new Space Invaders game has arrived on Android and iOS with AR being its new trick, ... Google notes that the game is powered by ARCore and uses the Geospatial API to bring Space Invaders to life.