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Copper Contributor

Mar 29, 2022

How to draw text to image and save it? MAUI

I am trying to make a mobile application that adds text to an image then saves it to the device. I see that drawing the text and image can be done using Maui.Graphics . But, I am not sure about the f...

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JamesMontemagno

Microsoft

May 15, 2023

I would say there are three options based on your needs:

DrawingView: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/communitytoolkit/maui/views/drawingview
SkiaSharp: https://github.com/mono/SkiaSharp
MAUI Graphics - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/user-interface/graphics/]

In each you would be rendering the text with the graphics view on the image and then saving it off.

Albernazf

Copper Contributor

May 16, 2023

JamesMontemagno I've ended up using Skiasharp, thx

ksd050
Copper Contributor
May 30, 2023
Hi Albernazf, do you have some working code you could share? I need to do the same thing but have spent days trying to get SkiaSharp up and running but cannot get even the simplest example working.