SkiaKit

Swift Bindings to the Skia 2D graphics Library

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SkiaKit

Go to macOS / iOS / tvOS | Go to Linux

SkiaKit is a 2D Graphics Library for use with Swift. It is powered by
Google’s Skia graphics library, the same library
that powers Google Chrome and Android graphics.

You can review the API Documentation

The Swift bindings are intended to be cross-platform, both to Apple
platforms, Linux, and new platforms where Skia and Swift run.

This work uses extensive code from Microsoft’s SkiaSharp bindings
authored by Matthew Leibowitz and dozens of contributors. SkiaSharp
just happens to have a very advanced set of bridge APIs to the
underlying Skia engine that does not existing in the upstream Google
Skia project.

Getting this to work

Apple

Supports:

  • x86_64 Mac: anything from 2008 MacBook to M1 (using x86 emulation)
  • arm64 iPhone: anything past iPhone 5S
  • arm64 iPad: anything past iPad Air / iPad mini 2 (post-2013)
  • iPhone Simulator
  • iPad Simulator
  • tvOS

Not currently supported:

  • Mac Catalyst

Recommended usage

You can add SkiaKit to your project by putting this dependency in your Package.swift:

.package(url: "https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SkiaKit.git", from: "1.0.0")

Using manually

If using manually, you’ll need to download and assemble the SkiaSharp.xcframework required.

This must be ran on macOS with the Command Line Tools for XCode installed.

git clone https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SkiaKit.git
cd SkiaKit
make download-payload

Linux

SkiaKit is platform agnostic and makes a best-effort support for
Linux. An .so for the SkiaSharp library is included and supports
the following Linux distributions.

The libSkiaSharp.so file will need to be distributed alongside your project.

Recommended usage

You can add SkiaKit to your project by putting this dependency in your Package.swift:

.package(url: "https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SkiaKit.git", .branch("generated"))

Using manually

If using manually, you’ll need to provide libSkiaSharp.so in the
root of the SkiaKit folder. For certain Linux distros,
a convenience script is provided.

This script requires curl and unzip.

git clone https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SkiaKit.git
cd SkiaKit
make download-payload-linux