Impeller Support?

[robertherber]

I just spotted Impeller in the release notes of Flutter 3.3. It seems to be the planned successor of Skia - still in an experimental state.

Just wanted to give you guys a heads up and I'm curious on how it could relate to React Native and this library? Since it's enabled by just a flag in Flutter - I'm thinking maybe it will even be API-compatible with Skia and therefore easy to support sometime down the road? :)

[chrfalch]

Hi @robertherber! We've seen it, and are very excited. The thing that excites us must is the fact that shaders will be more direct and faster to load (all rendering in Skia is done by shaders).

Enabling it with a flag in Flutter is unfortunately a bit more complex behind the scenes - it is basically a new renderer in Skia that has a different approach to shader compilation, but it should be possible for us to use it and we're keeping our eyes wide open to this project!

[robertherber]

@chrfalch Sounds awesome! Glad to hear you're on top of it - and great that features like this can benefit both Flutter and React Native!

[chrfalch]

Thanks :) Not that I feel I'm on top of Impeller and the new tech it is built upon, but we've discussed it with the Skia team - so I'm feeling I'm at a viewings distance of it :) :)