Why react-native-skia?

[MohammadAzimi]

I see lots of things is going around react-native these days and react-native-skia is one of the shiny ones!

I've seen some tweets making wonderful UIs by react-native-skia and what i know is that using react-native-skia help us use skia and canvas. But I don't get the point here! I mean why do we even need it? To use skia in react-native? then what does it bring for us? Is there something better about animations or anything related to svgs? Is there any thing we cannot draw with svg that skia can help us?

I'm asking because I didn't found anything about motivations or maybe a comparison vs something in the docs
so please make my eyes open

[wcandillon]

Skia offers a lot of advanced capabilities which were not available previously: blurs, shadows, shaders and so on.

[wobsoriano]

Also, the current canvas implementations uses WebView so react-native-skia really is a game-changer!

[Annazhang]

Also, the current canvas implementations uses WebView so react-native-skia really is a game-changer!

So react-native-skia is not based on webview?

[wcandillon]

No it is runs on the OpenGL API on Android and Metal API on iOS.

[lego-sharat]

Do you recommend building a 100% react-native-skia app where we use all the primitives like view/text/image from react-native-skia