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Building excellent games with better graphics and performance
- Google is enhancing its multiplatform gaming offering with new updates focusing on better graphics and performance, to be announced at the Game Developers Conference (GDC).
- Vulkan is being made the official graphics API on Android, aiming to provide developers with advanced features like ray tracing and multithreading for more immersive gaming visuals.
- The transition to Vulkan as the core for graphics commands on Android, with ANGLE used as a system driver for OpenGL translation, is expected to optimize graphics processing on more devices.
- Partnerships with major game engines like Unity aim to simplify Vulkan integration, with over 45% of new games on Unity already utilizing Vulkan.
- Android Dynamic Performance Framework (ADPF) is being improved to adjust game performance based on device thermal states, allowing for longer and smoother gameplay sessions.
- Integration with Samsung Austin Research Center aims to develop an integrated GPU profiler toolchain for Vulkan and AI/ML optimization to enhance graphics, memory, and compute workloads efficiency.
- Play Console now includes features like Low Memory Killers (LMK) in Android vitals to help monitor and improve game performance after launch.
- A pilot program is being launched to facilitate bringing PC games to mobile, with games like DREDGE and TABS Mobile already onboard.
- Developers are encouraged to explore Android game development resources to leverage the new enhancements for creating high-quality games on the Android platform.
- Google invites developers to engage with the new updates and initiatives introduced for Android gaming at the Game Developers Conference (GDC).
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