Ion is a portable suite of libraries and tools for building client applications,
especially graphical ones. It is small, fast, and robust, and is cross-platform
across many platforms and devices, including desktops, mobile devices, browsers,
and other embedded platforms.
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.