---
title: 'New Vulkan extensions for mobile and Android R - Buffer Device Address'
url: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-19775-5fd43edfc32f9a6d9204f94f5d24ac0b'
markdown: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-19775-5fd43edfc32f9a6d9204f94f5d24ac0b.md'
date: '2021-02-25'
taxonomy:
  tag:
    - Mobile
---

#  New Vulkan extensions for mobile and Android R - Buffer Device Address 

  February 25th at 2:01pm

 Android is enabling a host of useful new Vulkan extensions for mobile.These new extensions are set to improve the state of graphics APIs for modern applications, enabling new use cases and changing how developers can design graphics renderers going forward. VK_KHR_buffer_device_address is a monumental extension that adds a unique feature to Vulkan that none of the competing graphics API support. This blog describes the extension in detail and how it is used in mobile. 

 [ Read More  ](https://community.arm.com/developer/tools-software/graphics/b/blog/posts/vulkan-buffer-device-address)

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