# Shopify/react-native-skia

High-performance React Native Graphics using Skia

Repository: https://github.com/Shopify/react-native-skia
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/react-native-skia
Homepage: https://shopify.github.io/react-native-skia
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: react, react-native, skia
Last push: 2026-08-23T17:13:27+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 87, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1759, "days_push": 10, "days_rel": 10, "gap_med": 2.0, "n_releases_24m": 137}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 8527, forks 634 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:23.349655+00:00)

## What it is
A React Native library that brings the Skia 2D graphics engine to mobile apps, enabling high-performance drawing, rendering, and animation. It exposes Skia's canvas primitives as React components with support for GPU-accelerated rendering.

## Use cases
- draw custom shapes and paths in a react native app
- build animated charts and data visualizations on mobile
- create a signature pad or drawing app in react native
- render high-performance custom ui effects and shaders
- implement image filters and blur effects in react native
- build a custom canvas-based game or interactive graphic

## When to choose
- you need pixel-level custom drawing or gpu-accelerated graphics in react native
- standard react native views and reanimated can't achieve the visual effects or performance you need
- you want a declarative react api over the same engine that powers chrome and flutter

## When to avoid
- your app only needs standard ui components and layouts
- you need 3d graphics rather than 2d rendering
- you are not building with react native

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: graphics, animation, ui-components
- domain: mobile-development, frontend, graphics, cross-platform
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: skia, react-native, 2d-graphics, canvas, drawing, android, ios

## Member repositories
- Shopify/react-native-skia (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:23.349655+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:26:40.069324+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Shopify/react-native-skia (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:23.349655+00:00, sha cf59d321faf4)
  - homepage: https://shopify.github.io/react-native-skia (fetched 2026-08-29T08:26:58.381175+00:00, sha 856b38cdb63b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.