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.