Make SkiaSharp.Views.Forms support Xamarin Forms Gtk#

[yinyue200]

Xamarin Forms Gtk# Preview nuget package is on https://www.myget.org/F/xamarinforms-dev/api/v3/index.json

Thanks

VS bug #727964

[siebigteroth]

Any updates on this? I'm quiet interested on the progress :-)

[mattleibow]

I will be starting this soon as part of the v1.60.1 release. The v1.60.0 does have the raster-based widget SKWidget already in the package.

One thing that I need to consider is the GPU-based view. I see I need to use a newer version of OpenTK that is not available on NuGet, and at the same time, there is an OpenTK bundled in Xamarin.Forms.

So far I have not really looked into this, but what I might do is not provide a GPU-based widget for the platform package (at least not yet), and then base the Forms SKGLView off the existing OpenGL view in Xamarin.Forms.

[siebigteroth]

Thanks for the feedback and the great work! 👍

I also got stuck at OpenGL when I took a look at this this weekend. OpenTK's GLWidget looked promising, but this is only available for OpenTK-3.0.0-pre, which requires gtksharp3, which Xamarin doesn't use :-/

[mattleibow]

Yeah. Xamarin.Forms bundles their own assemblies that they build somewhere.

[siebigteroth]

No plans for 1.60.1?

[mattleibow]

Moving this to v1.60.3 so we can get out a version that fixes a UWP bug (#536)

[hflexgrig]

Please can someone help me with custom renderer, until this will be fixed in future releases ?

[lukemcdo]

Worth noting that Xamarin.GTK now requires OpenTK 3+, so that roadblock shouldn't be a factor anymore. Hopefully increased ease means its priority can be increased.

[mattleibow]

I am hoping to get these views in sometime soon. Let me move this to v1.68.2 so we can track this a bit more visibly.