ANativeWindow(3)

# ANativeWindow(3) Manual Page

## Name

ANativeWindow - Android native window type

## C Specification

To remove an unnecessary compile time dependency, an incomplete type definition of ANativeWindow is provided in the Vulkan headers:

    // Provided by VK_KHR_android_surface
    struct ANativeWindow;

## Description

The actual ANativeWindow type is defined in Android NDK headers.

## See Also

VK_KHR_android_surface

## Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification.

This page is extracted from the Vulkan Specification. Fixes and changes should be made to the Specification, not directly.

## Copyright

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