Arm: The Mobile Game Industry’s Architecture of Choice

Arm technology powers the most iconic gaming devices, enabling today’s mobile gaming revolution. Together, Arm and Unity are improving game performance on the billions of Arm-powered devices by default.

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Mobile technology for the future

Arm guide for Unity developers

Learn best practices and optimization techniques for the challenges of mobile game development. This guide is geared towards both beginners and advanced users to give you insights on building an optimized game.

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Mali GPU architecture fundamentals

Learn the basics of developing on Arm Mali GPUs with our guides exploring the principles of high performance, tile-based rendering, accelerating 2D applications, the Utgard, Midgard, and Bifrost shader cores and more.

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Performance metrics on Android

See where your frame rate drops. Identify problems with overdraw and monitor the numbers of primitives, pixels and draw calls per frame. Get advice solving common graphics problems that may impact performance.

Arm Performance Advisor

Deep analysis on mobile

Profile your game to identify bottlenecks on the CPU or GPU, and trace OpenGL ES and Vulkan API calls to pinpoint where rendering defects occur.

Arm Mobile Studio

Mobile VR best practice

Learn how to get high-quality 3D rendering for VR. This comprehensive guide explores the factors impacting mobile VR rendering and offers strategies to mitigate them. Each topic includes examples.

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Artists best practice on mobile

Learn how to optimize your geometry, textures, materials and shaders to make your mobile games run smoother and look better with our in-depth developer guides on asset creation.

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Enabling high-fidelity mobile gaming

Optimize mobile games with Arm Mobile Studio

Learn how to integrate automatic performance analysis into your workflow to optimize Android games to perform better across a wide variety of devices.

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Integrating Arm Mobile Studio with Unity

Learn how Arm Mobile Studio, a free tool suite, can help you analyze performance on Android, and discover how it works together with the Unity game development platform.

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Adding advanced effects on midrange phones

Learn how to optimize the rendering pipeline and budget for efficient post-processing effects such as bloom at high fps on midrange smartphones, with practical examples from game studio Nordeus.

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Understanding GPU budgets in mobile gamedev

The key to good real-time graphics performance is knowing your system limitations. Learn how to calculate an appropriate GPU performance budget for your target devices to see what you can afford.

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Using Burst for Android

Learn how Burst grants ahead-of-time compilation of critical C# code to native code and the performance it brings to multicore mobile processors.

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Develop on Arm with ease

Explore discussions, blog posts and other resources from developers, Arm engineers, tech enthusiasts and our ecosystem of partners.

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