Core Graphics, Quartz, and Core Animation are essentially the same across Mac OS X and iOS. OS X supports OpenGL; iOS supports OpenGL ES. OS X has AppKit; iOS

Core Graphics, Quartz, and Core Animation are essentially the same across Mac OS X and iOS. OS X supports OpenGL; iOS supports OpenGL ES. OS X has AppKit; iOS has UIKit. OS X also has Core Image. The balkanization of desktop Linux and Android makes no sense to me. The Surface Graphics Library and Surface Manager on Android needs to converge with desktop Linux. http://developer.android.com/guide/basics/what-is-android.html http://developer.android.com/guide/basics/what-is-android.ht...