# React Native Skia--For Us, For You, and For Fun

DevFeed: [React Native Skia--For Us, For You, and For Fun](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/react-native-skia-for-us-for-you-and-for-fun-1536.md>)

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

Author: Colin Gray

Published: 2022-04-29T16:00:01Z

Content type: article

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>), [C++](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/c-plus-plus.md>)

Tags: [c-plus-plus](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/c-plus-plus.md>), [flutter](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/flutter.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [react-native](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react-native.md>), [shaders](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shaders.md>), [svg](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/svg.md>), [webassembly](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/webassembly.md>)

## AI overview

React Native Skia brings Skia's cross-platform 2D drawing primitives to React Native. It uses the React Native JSI architecture to communicate with native modules through C++, offers imperative and declarative APIs, and supports graphics features such as filters, shaders, SVG, paths, vertices, and text layouts.

## Source excerpt

React Native Skia, an open source project, provides a set of powerful 2D drawing primitives that are consistent across iOS, Android, and the Web.