Plans for Layout Capabilities?

[dmahajan980]

Hello everyone! RN Skia is great and I find it very easy to create fancy UI elements with this library. This removes the need for layering and combining multiple View components to achieve the same UI. In most of these cases, the element depends on layout constraints from parent, siblings, and child nodes. Although the most recent version of RN Skia does not have layout capabilities, are there any plans to add support for layouts in RN Skia?

If this is in the roadmap, will this be a part of the project's first stable release?

Thanks in advance!

[wcandillon]

We are working on text layouts at the moment: https://twitter.com/wcandillon/status/1588102062318952448

Once we had done with this, we think it will give a sense maybe on how to do layouts for drawings too. It's a bit undertaking, we moving carefully with this.

[dmahajan980]

Thanks for sharing this and also for the amazing work you're doing!

[rhinck]

Hi @wcandillon,

I know this thread is a few years old, but I wanted to check if there have been any updates since your earlier comment about layout plans.

Our team is exploring React Native Skia to take advantage of its canvas-like expressiveness, but much of our UI work would benefit from a layout system similar to React Native’s — with concepts like flex, padding, gap, alignment, etc.

If native layout support isn’t on the roadmap yet, do you have any recommendations or examples of projects that successfully implement an abstraction layer for layout (e.g. flex-like utilities or constraint-based systems on top of Skia)?

Any guidance or references would be hugely appreciated — thank you for all your work on this project!