computer which was released in 1995. BeOS was designed for multitasking, multithreading, and a graphical user interface. The OS was later sold to OEMs, retail...

graphic and compute shader API created by Apple, debuting in iOS 8. Metal combines functions similar to OpenGL and OpenCL in one API. It is intended to improve...

primary C-based application programming interfaces (APIs) that were developed by Apple for the Mac OS X operating system. Carbon provided a good degree...

native object-oriented application programming interface (API) for its desktop operating system macOS. Cocoa consists of the Foundation Kit, Application Kit...

interface (API) calls to equivalent macOS APIs, allowing developers to run unmodified versions of their x86 Windows DirectX games on macOS. Mac users...

to be written using the BeOS API. After BeOS and its successor ZETA finally were gone, the team members around yab for BeOS decided to move to Linux...

releases of Mac OS X included more backward compatibility. Mac OS applications could be rewritten to run natively via the Carbon API; many could also...

graphics rendering API for macOS and iOS platforms, part of the Core Graphics framework. Quartz 2D is available to all macOS and iOS application environments...

announced HarmonyOS NEXT, the next version of HarmonyOS, which supports only native APP apps via Ark Compiler and native APIs in the HarmonyOS SDK. The kernel...

xterm. Terminal includes several features that specifically access macOS APIs and features, such as the command mdfind which is the terminal interface...

ColorSync is Apple Inc.'s color management API for the Classic Mac OS and Mac OS X operating systems. Apple developed the original 1.0 version of ColorSync...

The Windows API, informally WinAPI, is the foundational application programming interface (API) that allows a computer program to access the features of...

AtheOS was inspired by AmigaOS, and originally intended to be a clone of AmigaOS. Syllable is a fork of AtheOS, and includes some AmigaOS- and BeOS-like...

Core Text is a Core Foundation style API in macOS, first introduced in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, made public in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and introduced for the...

porting a Windows application to Macintosh. He then used SDL to port Doom to BeOS (see Doom source ports). Around the time of its creation, SDL was regarded...

places incompatible. The Foundation Kit is in the iOS Cocoa Touch API. This framework is based on the macOS Cocoa. The Foundation Kit is implemented in GNUstep's...

Most operating systems use proprietary APIs in addition to any supported standards. Amiga OS features since OS 2.0 version a standard centralized Install...

HarmonyOS NEXT with Galaxy stable version rollout which will begin in Q4 2024 based on OpenHarmony 5.0 (API 12) version after OpenHarmony 4.1 (API 11) based...

OpenStep is an object-oriented application programming interface (API) specification developed by NeXT. It provides a framework for building graphical...

Core Audio is a low-level API for dealing with sound in Apple's macOS and iOS operating systems. It includes an implementation of the cross-platform OpenAL...

incorporated into Mac OS 8, released on July 26, 1997. After considering the purchase of BeOS — a multimedia-enabled, multi-tasking OS designed for hardware...

Text in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). It was officially deprecated with Xcode 4.6, which was released in December 2012: "Source code using ATS APIs will generate...

Allegro supports Windows, macOS, Unix-like systems, Android, and iOS, abstracting their application programming interfaces (APIs) into one portable interface...

operating systems, but OS APIs now represent the primitive operations of the machine, rather than an ISA. This allows a programmer to use OS-level operations...

ClanLib is a video game SDK, supporting Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux, with partial support for mobile platforms. It has full hardware accelerated...

tested in a developer friendly desktop environment. In addition to the OS APIs, the OS abstraction layer project may also provide a hardware abstraction layer...

on HarmonyOS 3.1 release. It underwent an upgrade in HDC 2023 with HarmonyOS 4.0 API 10 and a major upgrade at January 18, 2024 HarmonyOS Ecology Developer...

Vulkan is a cross-platform API and open standard for 3D graphics and computing. It was intended to address the shortcomings of OpenGL, and allow developers...

Mac OS 8's "Platinum" user interface) or Carbon API. Mac OS X Server 1.0 contains a mix of features from the classic Mac OS, NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X. Like...

originally OpenBeOS, is a free and open-source operating system for personal computers. It is a community-driven continuation of BeOS and aims to be binary-compatible...