Self-Promotion Comment on a Skia Shader Playground for Faster Animation Testing
A developer describes replacing bloated Lottie animation files with Skia shaders for better performance, then built and shares a web-based SKSL playground to avoid recompiling apps when testing effects. The post is a self-promotional comment rather than an independent problem report.
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