Render your AR app using Vulkan

Platform-specific guides

Android (Kotlin/Java)

• Render your AR app using Vulkan on Android SDK (Kotlin/Java)

Android NDK (C)

• Render your AR app using Vulkan on Android NDK (C)

Unity (AR Foundation)

• Developer guide

Apps using ARCore can render the camera texture onto the screen using the Vulkan graphics API. Rendering your app using Vulkan lets you reduce CPU overhead.

When Vulkan rendering is enabled, ARCore updates an Android hardware buffer. This hardware buffer can be bound to a Vulkan VkImage.