Skia Graphics Engine

The Skia Graphics Engine is an open-source graphics library written in C++. Skia Inc. originally developed the library; Google acquired it in 2005,[1] and then released the software as open source licensed under the New BSD free software license.

Skia Graphics Engine
Original author(s)Skia Inc.
Developer(s)Google
Repository
Written inC++
Operating systemAndroid, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows
TypeGraphics library
LicenseNew BSD License
Websiteskia.org
skia.googlesource.com/skia

Library

Now known as Skia, the library is used as of 2017 in Google Chrome, Chrome OS, Chromium OS, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Android, Firefox OS, LibreOffice (from version 7.0), Flutter and Avalonia (from Alpha 4). The Skia library is also present on the BlackBerry PlayBook, though the extent of its usage is unclear.

Skia has several back-ends, including one for CPU-based software rasterization, one for Portable Document Format (PDF) output, and one for GPU-accelerated OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, and Metal. Partially implemented back-ends (which may lack some features) are also available for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). Skia is most similar in purpose to Cairo or Pathfinder (meaning that it focuses on drawing) rather than to other more elaborate infrastructures like Qt that provide their own widgets etc.[2]

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See also

References
  1. Malik, Om (2 Sep 2008). "Google Open Sources Skia Graphics Engine". gigaom. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
  2. "The Skia 2D Graphics Library From Google - Phoronix". www.phoronix.com. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
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