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Hello. Is there any way to draw blurred content inside a `Canvas` ?

Any hint regarding how to use that API? I was exploring how it is done internally with `shadow`  modifier. I think it uses graphics layer internally and eventually interacts with the render API, but I got lost in the process.

<https://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/RenderEffect|https://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/RenderEffect>

ah, I was wondering if there was a way to do it inside a Compose's `Canvas`  :sweat_smile:

We are working on exposing the `RenderEffect` api to the compose framework. If you are very keen on getting this to work today there are ways to do so but requires some compose interop usage of the `RenderNode` API and configuring the blur on that and drawing into the compose canvas

RenderScript cannot blur a `View`, it can blur a `Bitmap`

So you can do what others have done in the past and render to a `Bitmap` first (or use `PixelCopy`) and then blur the result

Thanks for the reassurance! I actually got that working, but did not yet figure out how I could see the composed UI underneath. Do you think that's possible, or does the blurred content all need to be laid out in an AndroidView?