Documentation
Skia is an open source 2D graphics library which provides common APIs that work across a variety of hardware and software platforms. It serves as the graphics engine for Google Chrome and ChromeOS, Android, Flutter, Mozilla Firefox and Firefox OS, and many other products.
Skia is sponsored and managed by Google, but is available for use by anyone under the BSD Free Software License. While engineering of the core components is done by the Skia development team, we consider contributions from any source.
- Canonical source tree: skia.googlesource.com/skia.
- Issue tracker: bug.skia.org.
- Discussion forum: skia-discuss@googlegroups.com.
- API Reference and Overview.
- Skia Fiddle: fiddle.skia.org.
Showcase
Click on any image below to see the source code that generated the image.
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| Translations and Rotations | Text Rendering |
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| Discrete Path Effects | Composed Path Effects |
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| Sum Path Effects | Shaders |
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Platforms
- Windows 10, 11
- macOS 10.15 or later
- iOS 12 or later
- Android 4.3 (JellyBean) or later
- Ubuntu 18.04+, Debian 10+, openSUSE 15.2+, or Fedora Linux 32+