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Piyachet Kanda
Piyachet Kanda

Reputation: 149

Does Android internally use Skia for drawing text on bitmaps?

I am dealing with an application which has to rapidly draw text on bitmaps. I've pretty much optimized the memory usage of the rendering process but I still want the process to be as fast as possible and that's when I learned about the Skia library which some people say it can provide superior performance compared to native Android canvas. After some googling, I heard that Android already uses Skia for UI rendering and I am wondering if I will gain any performance if I start using Skia to render text on bitmaps instead of using Android canvas ?

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user14144432
user14144432

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Android versions before 3.0 used SKIA for drawing, from 3.0 HWUI is used. You can see this article about The Android graphics subsystem and this related question.

Upvotes: 2

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