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The fact that we use an abstraction layer for drawing 2D &amp; 3D Charts means we can also support new rendering technologies such as Vulkan should they become the only option on Android devices.<\/p>\n<p>Be looking out for announcements and news on our site in the coming months! We are really excited to bring our 3D Charts to iOS\/Android\/OSX platforms and to continue building our vision of cross-platform native charts for the financial, scientific &amp; engineering industries!<\/p>\n<p><em>Our implementation of Metal for drawing will be packaged and published with SciChart iOS\/Android v3, which will include 2D &amp; 3D charts and is due for release in Spring 2019.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SciChart iOS currently uses an in-house rendering engine which relies on OpenGL ES for hardware acceleration. 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