With the canvas in place, you’re able to use SkiaSharp’s drawing primitives to add common shapes, like circles or rectangles. Other options support features like anti-aliasing, smoothing curves as needed. SkiaSharp has its own coordinate system, which may differ from that used by your choice of framework. It uses pixel-based measurements, so you will need to apply conversions to ensure that drawings are device-independent, using the canvas’ size property.

SkiaSharp’s low-level paint tools can animate images, redrawing them in different positions and with different colors. The development team recommends freeing up resources after each animation cycle, as doing it manually can be quicker than using .NET’s garbage collector.

Beyond shapes

Similar tools can render text on a canvas, painting the text in a chosen font, color, and size. Text is a graphical object like any other, so you can use the drawing tools to add special effects, such as only drawing text outlines. SkiaSharp can render bitmaps, with options for downloading, storing in local resource bundles as part of an application, or from the device directly. Again, you need your own scaling tools to display the image appropriately on the canvas.