https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan_%28API%29
Also by Khronos.
http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/96014/what-is-vulkan-and-how-does-it-differ-from-opengl
Derived from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantle_%28API%29 by AMD, now abandoned in favor of Vulkan, and will somewhat be the new OpenGL.
There is no ES version like for OpenGL, http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/08/android-to-support-vulkan-graphics-api-the-open-answer-to-metal-and-dx12/ says ES and non-ES convergence has been going on for a while now.
TODO software implementations: https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Is-there-a-Vulkan-software-CPU-implementation
- https://github.com/SaschaWillems/Vulkan. Tons of examples, best collection so far. Tested on Ubuntu host Android target. Linux build only exists for some examples, but porting is trivial: SaschaWillems/Vulkan#297 (comment)
- https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-LoaderAndValidationLayers. Cube only. Tested on Ubuntu host, Android target.
- https://github.com/LunarG/VulkanSamples Basically same as
Vulkan-LoaderAndValidationLayers. TODO why? - https://github.com/Overv/VulkanTutorial
- https://gist.githubusercontent.com/sheredom/523f02bbad2ae397d7ed255f3f3b5a7f/raw/7c33ee6136ae1f7c03741ba7ad6e02e8de9f9802/VkComputeSample Codeplay employee writes SPIR-V shader by hand! :-) The absolute minimal example?
- https://github.com/googlesamples/android-vulkan-tutorials Cube only. Didn't work.
Supported hardware:
- NVIDIA https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver: Kepler and Maxwell
- Android
- API 24?
- Samsung Galaxy S7 was the first to support it.
Works on most GPUs that support OpenGL ES 3.1 http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/08/android-to-support-vulkan-graphics-api-the-open-answer-to-metal-and-dx12/
TODO. Already had an NVIDIA NVS 5400M driver 361.42 working for OpenGL.