will it support iOS?

[akimky]

I would like to make games on this library on iOS, is there or will there be such an opportunity?

[raysan5]

@Akimpaus I never had an iOS or a mac so I couldn't ported it. Anyone interested in iOS can port raylib to it.

[blueloveTH]

Is there any progress? I am interested about porting raylib to iOS. However, I need some advanced guide of raysan5... I know iOS does not support opengl. Is the porting really feasible?

[blueloveTH]

I see this: #2036.
Can PortableGL be used as iOS backend?

[akimky]

@blueloveTH I'm sure it's possible. I can't say exactly how, because I have no experience in this matter. Ideally, you need to use Metal, not OpenGL. There are all kinds of wrappers and so on. But again, I'm not good at this... I'm glad that someone is interested in this)))

[blueloveTH]

Find some useful note here: #2998 (reply in thread)

[scripturial]

It is impossible to predict the future, but I honestly don't think Apple will pull OpenGL support for a very long time. It would kill a large number of of legacy apps in the App Store. I assume they would pull OpenGL support once the majority of apps no longer depend on OpenGL, and it's impossible to predict when that will be. But with Tim Cooke, anything is possible.

[jamesl-github]

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12894/apple-deprecates-opengl-across-all-oses by Ryan Smith <https://www.anandtech.com/Author/85> *on June 5, 2018 9:30 AM EST* "Apple never added support for OpenGL ES 3.1 or later on iOS, and similarly macOS doesn’t go beyond OpenGL 4.1 (Khronos is up to 4.6 now). Instead, Apple has been pushing developers to Metal <https://www.anandtech.com/show/9352/apples-metal-api-comes-to-os-x-desktops> almost as soon as it became available. And now by deprecating support for these older APIs, Apple is signaling that they are reserving the right to remove them entirely in the future."

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[gen2brain]

Who cares if they remove or not OpenGL? For all this time nobody has stepped up to do anything about the iOS or macOS. If users don't care why should anyone pay attention at all?