As this page is outdated, please refer to Bevy's official migration guides while reading, to cover the differences: 0.12 to 0.13.

I apologize for the inconvenience. I will update the page as soon as I find the time.

Bevy on Different Platforms

This chapter is a collection of platform-specific information, about using Bevy with different operating systems or environments.

Feel free to suggest things to add.

Platform Support

Bevy aims to also make it easy to target different platforms, such as the various desktop operating systems, web browsers (via WebAssembly), mobile (Android and iOS), and game consoles. Your Bevy code can be the same for all platforms, with differences only in the build process and environment setup.

However, that vision is not fully met yet. Currently, support for non-desktop platforms is limited, and requires more complex configuration.

Desktop

Bevy trivially works out-of-the-box on the three major desktop operating systems: Linux, macOS, Windows. No special configuration is required.

See the following pages for specific tips/advice when developing for the desktop platforms:

• Linux
• macOS
• Windows

All Bevy features are fully supported on each of the above.

You can also build Windows EXEs for your Windows users, if you are working in Linux or macOS.

Web

Bevy works quite well on the web (using WebAssembly), but with some limitations.

Multithreading is not supported, so you will have limited performance and possible audio glitches. Rendering is limited to the features of the WebGL2 API, meaning worse performance and limitations like only supporting a maximum of 256 lights in 3D scenes. These limitations can be lifted by enabling the new WebGPU support, but then you will have limited browser compatibility.

For inspiration, check out the entries in the Bevy Game Jams (third, second, first). Many of them have web builds you can play in your browser.

Mobile

Apple iOS is well-supported and most features work well. There are developers in the Bevy community that have successfully shipped Bevy-based apps to the App Store.

Android support is not as good as iOS, but very usable (as of Bevy 0.12). If you find bugs, broken features, or other issues, please report them.

Bevy has been known to have issues with emulator devices. It is recommended you test your app on real hardware.

Game Consoles

Unfortunately, due to NDA requirements, developing for consoles is inaccessible to most community developers who work in the open, and Bevy support is still mostly nonexistent.

At some point, there was someone in the community working on PlayStation support. I do not know if they are still around, or anything about the status of that work. If you are interested, join Discord and ask around. Maybe you can find each other and work together.

The Rust Programming Language aims to make Nintendo Switch a supported target, but that work is in its early days and has not progressed enough to be useful for Bevy yet. It should be possible to work on Nintendo Switch support in the open, without NDAs, using emulators.

The Steam Deck, and other such "handheld PCs", are well supported. Such devices run special versions of standard Desktop OSs (Linux, Windows) and are designed to support PC games out of the box. To develop for these devices, just make regular Linux/Windows builds of your game and ideally try them on an actual device, so you can see how the handheld experience is like and make sure your game feels good on such a device.