Working alternative for PlatformImage for Maui.Graphics.IImage for Windows?

Description

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/user-interface/graphics/images This sample shows how to load and work with image. The docs are not fully cross-platform. I need user to select an image and resize it on Windows. PlatformImage is not available on Windows. What is the suggested solution (working IImage implementation) for Windows?

Moreover, the docs say this:

Image loading functionality is provided by the GraphicsService class. Images can be loaded from a stream by the LoadFromStream method, or from a byte array using the LoadImageFromBytes method.

I cannot find any of these mentioned classes or methods. Is that a leftover from previous Preview version?

Thank you

Steps to Reproduce

Try get an IImage on Windows

Version with bug

Release Candidate 2 (current)

Last version that worked well

Unknown/Other

Affected platforms

Windows

Affected platform versions

all?

Did you find any workaround?

not sure because SkiaImage isn’t finished

other possible alternatives (have to check):

Relevant log output

No response

[drasticactions]

I might be reading this wrong but I think for Windows, PlatformImage is W2DImage (https://github.com/dotnet/Microsoft.Maui.Graphics/blob/main/src/Microsoft.Maui.Graphics.Win2D.WinUI.Desktop/W2DImage.cs). And instead of using PlatformImage, you should use IImage instead, since that’s the base image type for all of them.

@mattleibow does that sound right? It does seem weird that there is no direct PlatformImage for Windows that I can see.

[mattleibow]

The Skia* things is an alternative implementation that works across all platforms. You can either draw using win2d or skia.