Any way to use compose *desktop* as something like a Flow<Bitmap> (or something) instead of re...

# compose

[jeff]

Any way to use compose desktop as something like a Flow<Bitmap> (or something) instead of rendering to screen?

[sorianog]

What are the specifics of what you trying to accomplish?

[Big Chungus]

I think he means instead of rendering a composition to a screen, have it headless and render to Flow<Bitmap> instead (basically each render cycle emits a screenshot of the entire app to the flow)

[Big Chungus]

Sample use-case -> stream screen view to remote client

[jeff]

Exactly

[Big Chungus]

That should definitelly be possible, but not available out of the box. This kind of "rendering" would actualy unlock SSR for compose-web, so I'm sure we'll get to it eventually.

[Big Chungus]

One basically needs to get rid of the entire skia rendering part of compose-desktop and replace it with bitmap screenshot rendering

[Albert Chang]

I'm not sure but I don't think we need to get rid of Skia. Pure software rendering is too slow. And Chrome also uses Skia for rendering while still supporting casting web pages through Google Cast.