Google Open Sources Skia Graphics Engine
<p><img src="http://gigaom.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/chrome21.jpg?w=115&h=112" alt="Google Chrome" />I know I know… by now the world doesn’t need <a href="http://gigaom.com/2008/09/02/google-browser-puts-the-cloud-to-work/">yet another</a> Google Browser blog post, with yet another news item or a hands on review. How about something different, even though it was buried deep inside the Google Chrome announcement? </p><br /><p>As part of the <a href="http://code.google.com/chromium/" title="Chromium - Google Code">Chrome release</a>, <a href="http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/skia/">Google open sourced</a> <a href="http://www.satine.org/archives/2008/09/02/skia-source-code-released/">a big portion of</a> Android’s graphic engine code. This code comes from the Skia Graphics Engine that was developed by Skia Inc., a <a href="http://gigaom.com/2007/09/03/google-phone-facts/" title="Five Facts About Google Phone - GigaOM">company Google acquired</a> in 2005. It was based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and was started by Michael Reed. </p><br /><p>This vector graphics rendering software makes highend visual effects possible on feature phones. It is tiny in size and is capable of delivering very high quality. Skia’s engine is the graphics core of both Google Android and Google Chrome.</p><br /><p>This is yet <a href="http://gigaom.com/2008/09/01/google-browser-is-real-another-win-for-webkit/" title="Why is Google Releasing a Browser? - GigaOM">another proof point to my theory</a> that <strong>Google Chrome is more about the mobiles and less about the desktops</strong>. By adding Skia engine to Chrome, Google can ensure good graphics performance on devices that don’t have graphics processing unit.</p><br /><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gigaom.com&blog=1149864&post=19696&subd=gigaom&ref=&feed=1" /><br /><p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/OmMalik?a=Y0Nh46"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/OmMalik?i=Y0Nh46" border="0"></img></a></p><br /><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OmMalik?a=Psna0L"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OmMalik?i=Psna0L" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OmMalik?a=VWCVol"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OmMalik?i=VWCVol" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OmMalik?a=D6iNNl"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OmMalik?i=D6iNNl" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OmMalik?a=r7MWJL"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OmMalik?i=r7MWJL" border="0"></img></a><br /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OmMalik/~4/382072898" height="1" width="1"/>
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