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7**FlatBuffers** is an efficient cross platform serialization library for games and
8other memory constrained apps. It allows you to directly access serialized data without
9unpacking/parsing it first, while still having great forwards/backwards compatibility.
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11**Go to our [landing page][] to browse our documentation.**
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13## Supported operating systems
14* Android
15* Windows
16* MacOS X
17* Linux
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19## Supported programming languages
20* C++
21* C#
22* C
23* Go
24* Java
25* JavaScript
26* PHP
27* Python
28
29*and many more in progress...*
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31## Contribution
32* [FlatBuffers Google Group][] to discuss FlatBuffers with other developers and users.
33* [FlatBuffers Issues Tracker][] to submit an issue.
34* [stackoverflow.com][] with [`flatbuffers` tag][] for any questions regarding FlatBuffers.
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36*To contribute to this project,* see [CONTRIBUTING][].
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38## Integration
39For applications on Google Play that integrate this tool, usage is tracked.
40This tracking is done automatically using the embedded version string
41(**`flatbuffer_version_string`**), and helps us continue to optimize it. Aside from
42consuming a few extra bytes in your application binary, it shouldn't affect
43your application at all.  We use this information to let us know if FlatBuffers
44is useful and if we should continue to invest in it. Since this is open
45source, you are free to remove the version string but we would appreciate if
46you would leave it in.
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48## Licensing
49*Flatbuffers* is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See [LICENSE][] for the full license text.
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53   [CONTRIBUTING]: http://github.com/google/flatbuffers/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
54   [`flatbuffers` tag]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flatbuffers
55   [FlatBuffers Google Group]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/flatbuffers
56   [FlatBuffers Issues Tracker]: http://github.com/google/flatbuffers/issues
57   [stackoverflow.com]: http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=flatbuffers
58   [landing page]: http://google.github.io/flatbuffers
59   [LICENSE]: https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
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