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[[VK_KHR_android_surface]]
== VK_KHR_android_surface

*Name String*::
    +VK_KHR_android_surface+
*Extension Type*::
    Instance extension
*Registered Extension Number*::
    9
*Last Modified Date*::
    2016-01-14
*Revision*::
    6
*IP Status*::
    No known IP claims.
*Dependencies*::
  - This extension is written against version 1.0 of the Vulkan API.
  - Requires +VK_KHR_surface+.
*Contributors*::
  - Patrick Doane, Blizzard
  - Jason Ekstrand, Intel
  - Ian Elliott, LunarG
  - Courtney Goeltzenleuchter, LunarG
  - Jesse Hall, Google
  - James Jones, NVIDIA
  - Antoine Labour, Google
  - Jon Leech, Khronos
  - David Mao, AMD
  - Norbert Nopper, Freescale
  - Alon Or-bach, Samsung
  - Daniel Rakos, AMD
  - Graham Sellers, AMD
  - Ray Smith, ARM
  - Jeff Vigil, Qualcomm
  - Chia-I Wu, LunarG
*Contacts*::
  - Jesse Hall, Google

The +VK_KHR_android_surface+ extension is an instance extension.
It provides a mechanism to create a slink:VkSurfaceKHR object (defined by
the +VK_KHR_surface+ extension) that refers to an code:ANativeWindow,
Android's native surface type.
The code:ANativeWindow represents the producer endpoint of any buffer queue,
regardless of consumer endpoint.
Common consumer endpoints for code:ANativeWindows are the system window
compositor, video encoders, and application-specific compositors importing
the images through a SurfaceTexture.

=== New Object Types

None

=== New Enum Constants

  * Extending elink:VkStructureType:
  ** ename:VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_ANDROID_SURFACE_CREATE_INFO_KHR

=== New Enums

None

=== New Structures

  * slink:VkAndroidSurfaceCreateInfoKHR

=== New Functions

  * flink:vkCreateAndroidSurfaceKHR

=== Issues

1) Does Android need a way to query for compatibility between a particular
physical device (and queue family?) and a specific Android display?

*RESOLVED*: No.
Currently on Android, any GPU is expected to be able to present to the
system compositor, and all queue families must support the necessary image
layout transitions and synchronization operations.

=== Version History

 * Revision 1, 2015-09-23 (Jesse Hall)
   - Initial draft.

 * Revision 2, 2015-10-26 (Ian Elliott)
   - Renamed from VK_EXT_KHR_android_surface to VK_KHR_android_surface.

 * Revision 3, 2015-11-03 (Daniel Rakos)
   - Added allocation callbacks to surface creation function.

 * Revision 4, 2015-11-10 (Jesse Hall)
   - Removed VK_ERROR_INVALID_ANDROID_WINDOW_KHR.

 * Revision 5, 2015-11-28 (Daniel Rakos)
   - Updated the surface create function to take a pCreateInfo structure.

 * Revision 6, 2016-01-14 (James Jones)
   - Moved VK_ERROR_NATIVE_WINDOW_IN_USE_KHR from the VK_KHR_android_surface
     to the VK_KHR_surface extension.