Snapdragon Developer Tools

From mobile gaming to IoT, artificial intelligence, and XR (VR/AR), the world is hungry for digital content, intelligent solutions, and with that powerful compute performance from their mobile devices. The Snapdragon® Mobile Platforms have been designed with high performance, 5G-ready, and energy-efficient compute capabilities for premium mobile devices and their always-on, always-connected users.

Snapdragon mobile platforms help your applications run quickly and efficiently thanks to the Snapdragon core hardware architecture featuring the Qualcomm® Hexagon™ DSP, Qualcomm® Kryo™ CPU, and Qualcomm® Adreno™ GPU. These tools are designed to help you get optimal performance from our processors with both software development tools and hardware development kits.


Snapdragon, Qualcomm Adreno, Qualcomm Hexagon, and Qualcomm Kryo are products of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.

Hardware-Accelerated Ray Tracing Improves Lighting Effects in Mobile Gaming
Want better lighting effects, shadows and reflections in your mobile games? Step up from rasterization to ray tracing. See how our GPU enables realistic lighting, and how you can implement it in your...
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Updating Deep Learning Models Right on the Mobile Device — Transfer Learning and Fine-Tuning
Try transfer learning to train your ML models on mobile devices after deployment. We’ve published an example of fine-tuning to show you how to update models without retraining every layer.
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Accelerate your machine learning networks using TVM and the Adreno OpenCL ML APIs on Adreno GPUs
“I like using the TVM compiler framework but I want better performance on Adreno GPUs.” So do we. Learn how to accelerate processing using our new integration of the TVM compiler with Adreno OpenCL...
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Porting Your Apps to Windows on Snapdragon
Windows on Snapdragon compute platforms provide high performance, long battery life, and go-anywhere connectivity (e.g., 5G mmWave). This blog explores enhancements developers will find when...
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Qualcomm® Audio Calibration Tool
A comprehensive tuning and calibration environment tailored towards the audio and voice algorithms
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Snapdragon Profiler
Snapdragon Profiler is profiling software that runs on the Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms, and allows developers to analyze CPU, GPU, DSP, memory, power, thermal, and network data, so they can...
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Snapdragon LLVM Compiler
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Hexagon DSP SDK
The Hexagon SDK is designed to enable device manufacturers and independent software providers to optimize the features and performance of heterogeneous computing acceleration on the Hexagon DSP...
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Snapdragon® 8 Gen 2 Mobile Hardware Development Kit
Start prototyping your next round of innovations in AI, game play, image/video capture and Wi-Fi 7 on the Snapdragon® 8 Gen 2 mobile hardware development kit (HDK).
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Snapdragon® 8 Gen 1 Mobile Hardware Development Kit
Based on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Mobile Platform, this single-board computer is now available to help you develop for mobile PCs, smartphones, tablets and IP cameras.
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Snapdragon 888 Mobile Hardware Development Kit
Single-board computer (SBC) built on the Snapdragon 888 mobile platform.
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Startup Kits
Startup platforms and startup kits can help you port your development to a mobile platform and test it with real-world connectivity
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