Google Open Sources Skia Graphics Engine

by Sam Dean - Sep. 03, 2008Comments (0)

While it wasn't widely written up in the coverage of yesterday's release of the Chrome browser from Google, the company also open sourced a big portion of Android’s graphic engine code. The code comes from the Skia Graphics Engine that was developed by Skia Inc., a company Google acquired in 2005. According to our sister blog GigaOm: "This vector graphics rendering software makes high-end visual effects possible on feature phones. It is tiny in size and is capable of delivering very high quality. Skia’s engine is the graphics core of both Google Android and Google Chrome." Check out their story.

 


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