SkiaSharp is a cross-platform 2D graphics API for .NET platforms based on Google's Skia Graphics Library (skia.org). It provides a comprehensive 2D API that can be used across mobile, server and desktop models to render images.
SkiaSharp provides cross-platform bindings for:
- .NET Standard 2.0
- .NET Framework 4.6.2+ (Recommended .NET Framework 4.8)
- .NET Core
- .NET 6+
- Tizen
- Android
- iOS
- tvOS
- macOS
- Mac Catalyst
- WinUI 3 (Windows App SDK / Uno Platform)
- Windows Classic Desktop (Windows.Forms / WPF)
- Web Assembly (WASM)
- Uno Platform (iOS / Android / Windows / macOS / Linux / WebAssembly)
The API Documentation is available on the web to browse.
SkiaSharp is available as a convenient NuGet package, to use install the package like this:
nuget install SkiaSharp
Because there are multiple distros of Linux, and we cannot possibly support them all, we have a separate NuGet package that will contain the supported binaries for a few distros: SkiaSharp.NativeAssets.Linux. (distros) (more info)
There is also an early access feed that you can use to get the latest and greatest, before it goes out to the public:
https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/dnceng/public/_packaging/dotnet-libraries/nuget/v3/index.json
Building SkiaSharp is mostly straight forward. The main issue is the multiple dependencies for each platform.
However, these are easy to install as they are found on the various websites. If you are just working on managed code, it is even easier as there are ways to skip all the native builds.
- To get started building, see documentation/dev/building.md
- If you are just wanting a custom Linux build, see documentation/dev/building-linux.md
We welcome contributions! Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines on:
- Reporting issues
- Submitting pull requests
- Building from source
- Adding new APIs
For comprehensive documentation:
- CONTRIBUTING.md - Contributing guidelines
- documentation/dev/ - Architecture, build instructions, and maintainer guides
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