Skia + Vulkan = Skulpin
This crate provides an easy option for drawing hardware-accelerated 2D by combining vulkan and skia. (And a dash of winit!)
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This crate mainly depends on: * ash - Vulkan bindings for Rust * skia-safe - Skia bindings for Rust * winit - Cross-platform window handling
Currently there are two ways to use this library. * app - Implement the AppHandler trait and launch the app. It's simple but not as flexible. * renderer_only - You manage the window and event loop yourself. Then add the renderer to draw to it.
First, ensure that the below requirements are met depending on OS. Afterwards, the examples can be run normally:
cargo run --example skulpin_app
All examples require the LunarG Validation layers and a Vulkan library that is visible in your PATH. An easy way to get started is to use the LunarG Vulkan SDK
No extra steps required
Currently you may get a build error "cannot infer type" when compiling cocoa with objc 0.2.7.
0.2.6 works fine, you can force using it with cargo update -p objc --precise 0.2.6
On linux you'll need to link against bz2, GL, fontconfig, and freetype.
On ubuntu, you could use libbz2-dev, libfreetype6-dev, libfontconfig1-dev, and libgl-dev. (And libvulkan-dev to pick up the Vulkan SDK)
It may be possible to build this for mobile platforms, but I've not investigated this yet.
For now this is a proof-of-concept. I think there is desire for a simple entry point to drawing on the screen, and that this approach can provide a good balance of performance, features, and ease-of-use for many applications.
Flutter, Google's new UI framework, uses a Skia + Vulkan stack to achieve 60+ FPS on mobile devices. So I expect this type of usage to be maintained and improved as needed in the upstream libraries.
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