Question on Vulkan compatibility

[louwers]

Posted by @nickw1

Quick question from @JonasVautherin, developer of Ramani Maps, who is wondering about whether to move to the Vulkan build in the discussion on ramani-maps/ramani-maps#134:

Can you foresee any issues if projects move to the Vulkan build permanently in preference to the OpenGL build? For example, would it cause any compatibility issues?

Thanks.

[louwers]

There are some old devices that only support OpenGL and not Vulkan.

Ideally if you have some kind of wrapper library you let the user decide what renderer to use, see e.g. how maplibre-compose is handling that: https://maplibre.org/maplibre-compose/getting-started/#set-up-vulkan-on-android-optional

[nickw1]

@louwers thanks.