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React Native Skia

Drawing an entire Sudoku board in one SkPicture (and why the declarative Canvas stuttered)

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Written by: Jonathan Reis on Jul 23, 2026

Why the declarative Skia renderer with 81 React components per cell struggled on low-end devices, and how reimplementing the board with Skia.PictureRecorder + <Picture> removes the reconciler from the render hot path.

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React Native Skia

The rounded border that pushed every Sudoku digit off-center

8 min read

Written by: Jonathan Reis on Jul 6, 2026

A border on an overflow-hidden container silently shifted our Skia board and un-centered every digit. Here is how screenshots, not eyeballs, found the real cause in a React Native game.

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