google/skia
Skia is a complete 2D graphic library for drawing Text, Geometries, and Images. See documentation for contribution instructions. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
77/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4619
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
10906 stars · 1765 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Skia is Google's open source 2D graphics library providing common APIs for drawing text, geometries, and images across hardware and software platforms. It serves as the graphics engine for Chrome, ChromeOS, Android, Flutter, and Firefox.
Use cases
- render 2D shapes and text in a C++ application
- build a cross-platform custom UI toolkit with hardware-accelerated drawing
- draw images and bezier curves on canvas across mobile and desktop
- embed a graphics engine in a browser or app framework
- render PDFs or rasterize vector graphics
When to choose
- you need a battle-tested, high-performance 2D rendering engine in C++
- you want consistent drawing APIs across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android
- you are building a UI framework, browser, or design tool that needs GPU-accelerated 2D graphics
When to avoid
- you need 3D rendering rather than 2D drawing
- you want a high-level ready-made UI widget toolkit rather than a drawing library
- your project is in a language other than C++ without bindings
Facets
library · maturity stable
graphics image-processing gui graphics cross-platform developer-tools cpp cross-platform windows 2d-graphics rendering-engine text-rendering canvas gpu-accelerated chrome flutter macos linux android ios
8 sources
- readme: https://github.com/google/skia · fetched 2026-08-28 · d9852d77cd36
- homepage: https://skia.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · 0274e6693413
- site_page: https://skia.org/docs/user/download · fetched 2026-08-29 · a3fb91111c7a
- site_page: https://skia.org/about · fetched 2026-08-29 · 12d822e1adf9
- site_page: https://skia.org/docs/user/release · fetched 2026-08-29 · 4ef0fe021c8c
- site_page: https://skia.org/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · 2817db160f44
- site_page: https://skia.org/docs/dev/contrib · fetched 2026-08-29 · d8e216631a20
- site_page: https://skia.org/docs/dev · fetched 2026-08-29 · c35f27b2aee0
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| google/skia | main | 77 |
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