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<h2 id="users">Users</h2> <p>Some notable users of FlatBuffers: </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Cocos2d/XcdoCk2x">Cocos2d-x</a>, the popular free-software 2-D game programming library, uses FlatBuffers to serialize all of its game data.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Facebook/0IhXFR6u">Facebook</a> Android Client uses FlatBuffers for disk storage and communication with Facebook servers. The previously used JSON format was performing poorly.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul> <li>Free and open-source software portal</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Comparison_of_data_serialization_formats/YGkeqybD">Comparison of data serialization formats</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"GitHub — google/flatbuffers: Memory Efficient Serialization Library". GitHub. Retrieved 2020-12-10. <a href="https://github.com/google/flatbuffers" target="_blank">https://github.com/google/flatbuffers</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"FlatBuffers for Unity". eXiin. 2015-09-21. Retrieved 2017-06-15. We tested flatbuffers [sic] on all major mobile platforms (iOS, Android, Amazon Os [sic], Windows Phone) we're building on[,] and it works pretty well. <a href="http://exiin.com/blog/flatbuffers-for-unity-sample-code/" target="_blank">http://exiin.com/blog/flatbuffers-for-unity-sample-code/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"FlatBuffers Documentation". Retrieved 2017-06-21. FlatBuffers is an efficient cross platform serialization library for C++, C#, C, Go, Java, JavaScript, PHP, and Python. It was originally created at Google for game development and other performance-critical applications. <a href="https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/" target="_blank">https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Wouter van Oortmerssen (2014-06-17). "FlatBuffers: A Memory-Efficient Serialization Library". Retrieved 2017-06-15. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Wouter_van_Oortmerssen&action=edit&redlink=1" target="_blank">/w/index.php?title=Wouter_van_Oortmerssen&action=edit&redlink=1</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Kenton Varda (2014-06-17). "Cap'n Proto, FlatBuffers, and SBE". Retrieved 2017-06-15. <a href="https://capnproto.org/news/2014-06-17-capnproto-flatbuffers-sbe.html" target="_blank">https://capnproto.org/news/2014-06-17-capnproto-flatbuffers-sbe.html</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"Cocos2d-x: Flatbuffers Namespace Reference". <a href="http://www.cocos2d-x.org/reference/native-cpp/V3.5/d7/d2d/namespaceflatbuffers.html" target="_blank">http://www.cocos2d-x.org/reference/native-cpp/V3.5/d7/d2d/namespaceflatbuffers.html</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>George Xie (2015-07-31). "Improving Facebook's performance on Android with FlatBuffers". Retrieved 2017-06-15. Story load time from disk cache is reduced from 35 ms to 4 ms per story. Transient memory allocations are reduced by 75 percent. Cold start time is improved by 10-15 percent. We have reduced storage size by 15 percent. <a href="https://code.facebook.com/posts/872547912839369/improving-facebook-s-performance-on-android-with-flatbuffers/" target="_blank">https://code.facebook.com/posts/872547912839369/improving-facebook-s-performance-on-android-with-flatbuffers/</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>