Project Summary
Skia is an open source 2D graphics library which provides common APIs that work across a variety of hardware and software platforms. It serves as the graphics engine for Google Chrome and Chrome OS, Android, Mozilla Firefox and Firefox OS, and many other products.
Skia is sponsored and managed by Google, but is available for use by anyone under the BSD Free Software License. While engineering of the core components is done by the Skia development team, we consider contributions from any source.
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 414 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in September, 2006
ending with its most recent commit 1 day ago
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