SkiaSharp

A cross-platform 2D graphics API for .NET platforms based on Google's Skia Graphics Library. It provides a comprehensive 2D API that can be used across mobile, server and desktop models to render images.

Changes

• Updated some documentation
• The managed SkiaSharp.dll will now work with Unity3D
• SKTypeface can now be constructed from non-seekable streams or SKData
• Switched away from packages.config to <PackageReference> (and other .csproj cleanups)
• Resolved the ObjectDisposedException (#292)
• Corrected the behavior of SKManagedStream and this fixed loading of bitmaps over the network (#335)
• A few memory management fixes for SKManagedStream (#376, #83)

Links

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SkiaSharp.Views

A set of pre-prepared UI views, panels and surfaces for drawing. One of these views can be added to the view hierarchy, and then be used for drawing without the need for complex setup. There is also a set of extension methods for converting to/from SkiaSharp and native types.

Changes

• Exposed the current GRContext on the various GL views (#358)

Links

NuGet

SkiaSharp.Views.Forms

A set of pre-prepared views for Xamarin.Forms, for fully cross-platform drawing code. There are views for both CPU and GPU backends, along with extension methods for converting to/from SkiaSharp and Xamarin.Forms types. Currently available for iOS, Android, UWP and macOS (preview).

Changes

• Exposed the current GRContext on SKGLView (#358)

Links

NuGet

SkiaSharp.Svg & SkiaSharp.Extended (preview)

SkiaSharp.Svg and SkiaSharp.Extended have moved to mono/SkiaSharp.Extended and will be updated independently from this repository.

HarfBuzzSharp (preview)

HarfBuzz is a text shaping engine, and HarfBuzzSharp exposes some of the functionality to managed .NET applications.

Links

NuGet

SkiaSharp.HarfBuzz (preview)

Support for text shaping using the HarfBuzz text shaping library. This package adds the SKShaper type that can shape a string, returning the codepoints and their positions.

This package also adds some extension methods to SKCanvas to make drawing shaped text easier. These methods include DrawShapedText and it's overloads.

Links

NuGet

Samples

A few new samples were added to demonstrate some new features.

All the samples that have been built and tested for this version of SkiaSharp can be downloaded in the "Downloads" links below.