SkiaSharp

SkiaSharp is a cross-platform 2D graphics API for .NET platforms based on Google's Skia Graphics Library (https://skia.org/). It provides a comprehensive 2D API that can be used across mobile, server and desktop models to render images.

What is Included

SkiaSharp provides a PCL and platform-specific bindings for:

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

First clone the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/mono/SkiaSharp.git

Next, set up the submodules:

$ cd SkiaSharp
$ git submodule init && git submodule update

Then follow the platform-specific instructions below.

Mac OS X

Run from Bash

$ ./bootstrapper.sh -t libs

Windows

You need Python 2.7 in PATH environment variable. Then you can build it:

> .\bootstrapper.ps1 -Target libs

Build Targets

There are several targets available:

• externals - builds all the native libraries
  • [win] externals-windows - builds the native libraries for Windows
  • [win] externals-uwp - builds the native libraries for Windows UWP
  • [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
• clean - cleans everything
  • clean-externals - cleans externals only

Compare Code

Here are some links to show the differences in our code as compared to Google's.

What version are we on? m49
Are we up-to-date with Google? Compare
What have we added? Compare

Where is Windows Phone 8 / Store 8 / 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)