Everything you need to know to go from scratch to building Android Vulkan applications.

Introduction

This guide helps you get up and running with developing for your Mali GPU based platform running Android. It helps you to download and configure the tools so you can begin to develop apps for your platform. It is assumed you are either running Linux or Windows as your host platform.

Getting the Appropriate Tools

You require a few tools for Android Development. Most of these are in one place. Download Android Studio here and install it. Once you have installed the Android Studio, install CMake, LLDB and the NDK from the SDK manager.

Connecting your Device

Connect your device to your host machine. Make sure to enable USB debugging on the device so that you can push built APKs onto the device. To verify that you have the proper access to a device, you can use adb to verify this.

$ adb devices

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX device

If you are having problems with ADB, please consult this page.

Building and Running Your Application

To build a sample, see Building The Samples.