google/gapid

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

GAPID is a collection of tools for recording, inspecting, tweaking, and replaying calls made by an application to a graphics driver, supporting OpenGL ES on Android and Vulkan on desktop. It includes a GUI client for stepping through draw calls and inspecting state, plus a command-line tool (gapit) for capturing and analyzing traces.

Use cases

• trace and replay graphics API calls from an Android app
• debug Vulkan application rendering frame by frame
• inspect shaders, textures, and geometry in a captured frame
• step through draw calls to see how a frame is composed
• tweak shader source and see the effect on the rendered frame
• capture and analyze graphics traces from the command line
• profile replay performance of graphics commands

When to choose

• you need to debug OpenGL ES rendering on an Android device
• you want to inspect and replay Vulkan command streams on desktop
• you need to visualize textures, shaders, and framebuffer state at any point in a frame
• you want a free, open-source alternative to proprietary GPU debuggers

When to avoid

• you need actively maintained Android GPU profiling - use Google AGI instead
• you need to debug APIs other than OpenGL ES or Vulkan
• you require replay on a different device than the one used for tracing

Facets

application · maturity maintenance

graphics tracing developer-tools gui cli graphics developer-tools android-tools windows cross-platform cli vulkan opengl-es gpu-debugging trace-replay graphics-api gapit debugger game-development android macos linux

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