Guides

These pages focus on specific tasks instead of describing the whole architecture.

In this section

Loading SVG, SvgDocument, and VectorDrawable compares the file, stream, string, reader, and document load APIs.
SvgDocument Handling and Mutation covers DOM ownership, full-document rebuilds, and reload workflows.
Retained Scene Graph Usage shows how to inspect nodes, resources, and subtree pictures.
Exporting Images, Pdf, and Xps covers output helpers and supported formats.
Hit Testing and Scene Inspection walks through element and scene-node hit testing.
Performance and Retained-Scene Refresh documents the staged load costs and incremental mutation-refresh APIs.
Interaction and Animation covers the shared pointer-routing surface, animation runtime, host backends, and retained native composition.
CLI Conversion covers Svg.Skia.Converter.
Source Generator and svgc covers generated-code workflows.