EGL (API)

EGL (OpenGL)

Original author(s)	Khronos Group
Developer(s)	Khronos Group
Stable release	1.5 / March 19, 2014; 3 years ago (2014-03-19)
Written in	C
Operating system	Cross-platform
Platform	Cross-platform
Type	API
Website	www.khronos.org

EGL is an interface between Khronos rendering APIs (such as OpenGL, OpenGL ES or OpenVG) and the underlying native platform windowing system. EGL handles graphics context management, surface/buffer binding, rendering synchronization, and enables "high-performance, accelerated, mixed-mode 2D and 3D rendering using other Khronos APIs." EGL is managed by the non-profit technology consortium Khronos Group.

The acronym EGL is an initialism, which starting from EGL version 1.2 refers to Khronos Native Platform Graphics Interface. Prior to version 1.2, the name of the EGL specification was OpenGL ES Native Platform Graphics Interface.X.Org development documentation glossary defines EGL as "Embedded-System Graphics Library".