Hi there. I'm thinking of creating a video creation tool with Compose, similar to Remotion from Reac...

# compose

[shaz01]

Hi there. I'm thinking of creating a video creation tool with Compose, similar to Remotion from React. I'm guessing Compose for Desktop connects to skiko somewhere and I'm hoping to render composables in a skiko layer that I'm in control of, which will then be exported into a video somehow. Has anyone tried something similar to this? Where should I look for the skiko rendering layer of compose, and is it completely internal or is it publicly usable?

[Zoltan Demant]

I dont know how relevant this is, but you can use runSkikoUiTest and save images from the composable contents. Might be able to do much more with that?

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

idk about rendering to a custom skiko layer, but you could potentially use GraphicsLayer https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/androidx/compose/ui/graphics/layer/GraphicsLayer

[jw]

Rendering to a video isn't much different than normal rendering

[jw]

You'll basically just loop as long as you want, send a frame with the nano offset, save the output

[jw]

https://github.com/JakeWharton/composeui-lightswitch/blob/5a1dd771df16b114c697a917e420b6c3c17b2ea4/src/commonMain/kotlin/main.kt#L304-L338

[jw]

Setting up Compose UI is pretty basic, too https://github.com/JakeWharton/composeui-lightswitch/blob/5a1dd771df16b114c697a917e420b6c3c17b2ea4/src/commonMain/kotlin/main.kt#L115-L123

[shaz01]

Thank you for the help everyone! I've managed to build a small prototype with Jake's approach. 🙏