# Getting Started with React Native Skia

DevFeed: [Getting Started with React Native Skia](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/getting-started-with-react-native-skia-1402.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/getting-started-with-react-native-skia>)

Author: Daniel Friyia

Published: 2023-12-04T15:00:03Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [React Native](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/react-native.md>), [Library](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/library.md>), [cross-platform](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cross-platform.md>), [Canvas](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/canvas.md>), [shaders](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shaders.md>), [SVG](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/svg.md>)

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## AI overview

This tutorial introduces React Native Skia, a cross-platform 2D graphics library for creating custom drawings, animations, visual effects, and interactive experiences across mobile, desktop, and browser platforms. It explains why developers might choose Skia over more limited standard components or static SVG approaches.

## Source excerpt

Skia is a cross-platform 2D graphics library that provides a set of drawing primitives which run on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux, and the browser. Over the past two years, Shopify Engineering has sponsored development of the @shopify/react-native-skia library that exposes Skia functionality to React Native. The React Native (RN) Skia community is one of the most vibrant and interesting in the React world.