https://github.com/google/ion

Ion
https://github.com/google/ion

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Ion

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/google/ion
• Owner: google
• License: apache-2.0
• Archived: true
• Created: 2016-01-25T23:13:46.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-06-09T07:59:49.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-09-25T04:08:29.842Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: C++
• Homepage:
• Size: 315 MB
• Stars: 1,423
• Watchers: 91
• Forks: 91
• Open Issues: 14
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

          
# Ion

Ion is a portable suite of libraries and tools for building client applications,

especially graphical ones. It is small, fast, robust, and is cross-platform

across many platforms and devices, including desktops, mobile devices, browsers,

and other embedded platforms.

For more details and a fair amount of documentation see

https://google.github.io/ion.

## Why Use Ion?

* Small: < 500k binary size on mobile platforms, often much smaller

* Powerful: Tools for faster productivity when developing applications

  * Robust, portable application infrastructure aids in:

  * Object lifetime management

  * Memory allocation

  * Application start-up and static instances

  * Threading

  * Run-time setting editing

  * Automatic performance instrumentation

  * More!

* Tools for graphics:

  * Analyze graphics scenes to find performance bottleneck

  * Trace all OpenGL calls and examine their arguments

  * Use scene resources in multiple contexts, automatically

  * Run-time graphics state introspection

  * Run-time shader editing: change your shaders and immediately see the results

* Fast graphics: Minimal overhead between your application and OpenGL / ES

* Tested: Well-tested and facilitates testing your application

  * ~100% test coverage

  * Black- and white-box tested, unit tests and integration tests

  * Mock implementation of OpenGL API allows direct renderer unit tests and

    validation

  * Integrated Remote: extensible API allows changing arbitrary application

    settings on-the-fly for faster development, testing, and debugging

* Cross-platform:

  * Desktop: Linux, Mac OSX, Windows (OpenGL)

  * Handheld: Android (ARM, x86 MIPS), iOS (ARM and x86), and their 64-bit

    variants

  * Browser: Emscripten/asm.js, NaCl / pNaCl

* Cross-functional

  * Used by many teams across Google, running on billions of devices through

    multiple Google products

NOTE: This is not an official Google product.