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Episode 184: Skia and AGSL - Shaders of Things to Come

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Canvas API

Skia itself is used by android, but also by chromium, the chrome browser, and other browsers built on that engine. It's used by flutter and flutter's canvas looks very similar to android's canvas for the same reason. The skia api has a canvas that looks much like android's canvas as well. In fact, it 's not like andre had anapi that skia got mapped to. It was reversed,. So skia was acquired by andrelate two thousand five, and came in with this native library That did most of what skia currently does to day, except for some of the recent stuff that we're in to talk about. And then

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