Arm Mali Developer Resources

Looking for all of the developer resources available from Arm? As there are so many they can be difficult to find sometimes. That is where we come in with this handy quick reference blog for you!

Developer Guides

• Arm Mali Best Practices Guide
• Arm Best Practices for VR on Unity
• Arm Best Practices for VR on Unreal Engine
• Arm Guide for Unity Developers
• All of the Arm Mali developer guides on our Graphics and Multimedia developer webpage

Relevant Quick Reference Blogs

Optimizations and Post Processing

• Post Processing on Mobile, the Optimizations and Alternatives using Spellsouls, a Nordeus Title.
• Post-processing in Mobile: Clustered Volumetric Fog

VR

• Using inside out VR tracking on Mobile with AR Core and Unity - How to guide
• Creating a Demo, From an Artists Perspective - How we did it guide
• Console like Experiences on Mobile Using Apex Construct
• Indoor Navigation with SLAM on your Mobile - How to guide
• Lila's Tale - Optimization Lessons Learned From Hands on Implementation
• High Quality Reflections for Mobile VR in Unreal Engine
• Optimizing Virtual Reality: Foveated Rendering
• Optimizing Virtual Reality: Understanding Multiview
• Circuit VR: A Post-Mortem in a Lilliputian World

Compute Library

• Running AlexNet on Raspberry Pi with Compute Library
• Cartoonifying Images on Raspberry Pi with the Compute Library
• Creating an ML/AR Demo on Your Mobile with AR Core, Unity and Arm NN - How to guide

Vulkan

• Using Compute Post Processing on Mali in Vulkan
• PerfDoc - a Vulkan layer for application validation according to Mali Application Developer Best Practices document.
• An intro to Vulkan & Validation Layers
• Temporal Anti Aliasing
• Vulkan Integration into Unity
• Vulkan Multipass at GDC 2017

Vulkan Best Practices

All of these blogs are reference to the Vulkan Samples, that are a collection of resources to help you develop optimized Vulkan applications. You can find the GitHub repository here 

• Descriptor and Buffer Management
• Appropriate Use of Surface Rotation
• Picking the Most Efficient Load/Store Operations
• How To Configure Your Vulkan Swapchain

Arm Mobile Studio

• Accelerating Mali GPU analysis using Arm Mobile Studio
• Better Together: Integrating Arm Mobile Studio with Unity
• Mobile Studio 2019.1 now available
• Accelerate your shaders with Mali Offline Compiler 7.0

General Graphics

• Console Quality Game Rendering on Mobile
• Mali Bifrost Usage Recommendations for Texture and Sampler Descriptors
• HotChips - The benefits of Bifrost

Arm Developer Resources

• Arm Mali - Vulkan Overview
• Arm Mali - Unity Overview
• Arm Mali - Unreal Engine Overview
• Arm Mali - Virtual Reality Overview

Presentations from Events

• Vulkan Related Presentations
• Virtual Reality Related Presentations
• Unity Related Presentations

Arm Mobile Studio and Software Performance Analysis Tools

• Arm Mobile Studio - Graphics Anaylzer 
• Arm Mobile Studio - Streamline
• Mali GPU Offline Compiler
• Mali GPU Texture Compression Tool
• ASTC Evaluation Codec
• OpenGL ES Emulator

Graphics Technologies

• Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC)
• Arm Frame Buffer Compression (AFBC)
• Smart Composition
• Transaction Elimination 

SDKs

• Mali Vulkan SDK
• Mali OpenGL ES SDK 
• Mali VR SDK 

Drivers

• Android NNAPI
• Mali GPU User-Space Binary Drivers - Various Development Boards
• Mali Bifrost GPUs

The rest of the open source Arm Mali drivers can be found here

White Papers

• 360-Degree Video Rendering
• Foveated Rendering Techniques

Arm Mali Multimedia Products 

• Mali GPUs
• Mali Display
• Mali Camera
• Assertive Display

You should also check out the compute library and development platform information that is also available on the site.

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