Android Graphics Internals

Question

I haven\'t found a clear explanation on how the Android graphics system works, specifically, does it use a display server, is it based on DirectFB or X11, etc.

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Answer 1

Romain Guy was definitely right. But thing changed since Android 3.0. Skia is not that important anymore , most 2D drawing are accelerated using openGL, a.k.a HWUI component.