SkiaSharp

SkiaSharp is a cross-platform, managed binding for the Skia Graphics Library (https://skia.org/)

What is Included

SkiaSharp provides a PCL and platform-specific bindings for:

• Mac OS X
• Xamarin.Android
• Xamarin.iOS
• Windows Desktop
• Mac Desktop

You can also build this on your particular variant of Unix to create your native libraries.

Using SkiaSharp

Check our getting started guide

Building SkiaSharp

Mac OS X

Run from Bash

$ ./bootstrapper.sh -t libs

Windows

You need Python 2.7 in PATH environment variable. Then you need to run following commands from skia directory:

> ..\depot_tools\gclient.bat config --unmanaged https://github.com/mono/skia.git
> ..\depot_tools\gclient.bat sync

The process will take some time while gclient downloads Skia build dependencies.

Then you can finally build it:

> .\bootstrapper.ps1 -Target libs

There are several targets available:

• externals - builds all the native libraries
  • [win] externals-windows - builds the native libraries for Windows
  • [mac] externals-osx - builds the native libraries for Mac OS X
  • [mac] externals-ios - builds the native libraries for iOS
  • [mac] externals-andoid - builds the native libraries for Android
• libs - builds all the managed libraries
  • [win] libs-windows - builds the managed libraries that can be built on Windows
  • [mac] libs-osx - builds the managed libraries that can be built on Mac OS X
• tests - builds and runs the tests
• samples - builds the samples available for the current platform
• docs - updates the mdoc files
• nuget - packages the libraries into a NuGet
• CI - builds everything

Where is Windows Phone / Store / tvOS

We are working to add binaries for these platforms, stay tuned for a future release (or check the pull requests and branches, where we are working on those)