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title: "isAvailable"
sidebar_label: "isAvailable"
description: "Kotlin binding reference: isAvailable."
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//[clika-runtime](../../../index.md)/[io.clika.runtime](../index.md)/[Backends](index.md)/[isAvailable](isAvailable.md)

# isAvailable

[common]\
fun [isAvailable](isAvailable.md)(api: [ComputeApi](../ComputeApi/index.md)): [Boolean](https://kotlinlang.org/api/core/kotlin-stdlib/kotlin/-boolean/index.html)

Does the backend load and initialize on this device? Brings it up on the first call.