Skija on iOS

[sgopi93]

Hi, I am trying to write a word processor using skija/skiko as an abstraction on Desktops and mobiles, but I wonder how will skija run on iOS as it uses JNI(Kotlin multiplatform must use stdlib). Is there any roadmap for targeting iOS?

[tonsky]

What’s JVM story on iOS? I think you are better off with Skiko + Kotlin Native (I don’t think if it’s there yet, but the have plans to go there, as far as I know)

[sgopi93]

I think you are better off with Skiko + Kotlin

I am assuming Skiko uses Skija underneath, which means Skija has to be targeted to iOS as well?.
If Skiko used cinterop directly to wrap Skia, wouldn't that be a better route for targeting multiplatform?

[joelewis]

I have the same question. I understand Skija route will help Java projects to easily integrate Skia on top of being useful for Skiko/Jetbrains Compose project as well. But directly wrapping Skia C++ APIs with Kotlin would have been a better direction to target more platforms, especially iOS?

Would like to know the actual motivation of the project and what's in line for platforms that doesn't do well with JVM.

[tonsky]

Skija is JVM bindings for Skia. It doesn’t add anything on top. If some platform does not support JVM, maybe using Skia via C++/C bindings directly is a better approach?

Re: iOS, Skia has first-class support for iOS, as far as I know. Chrome and Flutter use it.