Flutter: StageXL replace Skia in dart:ui for web

[Benjamin Thong Chee Wai]

Hi guys :)
I'm investigating the possible use of Dart for our future projects.

Flutter seems to be a fully Dart framework riding on Skia and Text

I'm not familiar with Skia and just chanced upon StageXL. So I'm wondering... is it feasable to re-implement  dart:ui to use StageXL and hence bring Flutter onto Web (as opposed to StageXL onto Flutter)?

Thank you for your help :)

[Nils Döhring]

Having created a UI library for StageXL, I was thinking the same thing. So far, I didn't get around to look into it more deeply, but for sure it would require massive refactoring towards the dart:ui API. Might become my cold winter evenings project.

Here's the library:

http://rockdot.sounddesignz.com/template/#/material-home

While it's lightweight, fast, and runs on all browsers and devices (down to iPhone 4), there's still lots to be done.

[Bernhard Pichler]

Hi Benjamin,

Yes that's in interesting idea, but as Nils already said it's probably a lot of work to implement it. 

I wonder if it wouldn't be easier to implement it on top of WebGL since Skia is built on top of OpenGL (i assume).

So this would be a "port Skia to WebGL" project,

Kind regards,

Bernhard

[Benjamin Thong]

Thank you Nils and Bernhard for the response and direction.

I'll get my hands dirty with Dart and Flutter then, and likely attempt an open dart:ui -> webGL port.

Cheers!