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I believe Chrome uses Skia

• lesuorac 2y ago
  Yes [4]. > [1] The library is used as of 2023 in Google Chrome, ChromeOS, ChromiumOS, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Android, Firefox OS, Flutter,[5] Avalonia (from Alpha 4), LibreOffice (from version 7.0) and RAD Studio[6](since version 12.0). > [2] Changes to the Skia repository will be rolled into Chromium by the AutoRoll bot several times per day. > [3] It serves as the graphics engine for Google Chrome and ChromeOS, Android, Flutter, and many other products. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skia_Graphics_Engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skia_Graphics_Engine [2]: https://skia.org/docs/dev/chrome/ https://skia.org/docs/dev/chrome/ [3]: https://skia.org/ https://skia.org/ [4]: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/tree/main/skia https://github.com/chromium/chromium/tree/main/skia
  • pmarreck 2y ago
    Whoa. Somehow I have not heard of this. Can this be used to make cross-platform GUI apps?
    • Rohansi 2y ago
      Sure you can, it's a 2D graphics library. It's more like the JS Canvas API though instead of a UI framework.
      • PaulDavisThe1st 2y ago
        Which rather importantly means that you still need to find something else to do: * layout * event handling which are not exactly trivial for a "real" application (whatever that means).
  • mnutt 2y ago
    As of 2024, WebKit's Linux ports (GTK and WPE) are switching to Skia too. [0] Prior to that, they used cairo. [0]: https://blogs.igalia.com/carlosgc/2024/02/19/webkit-switching-to-skia-for-2d-graphics-rendering/ https://blogs.igalia.com/carlosgc/2024/02/19/webkit-switchin...