I personally use Skia, in combination with a very thin platform layer. I do use C++ so that might still be a bit too low level, but after having set up everything, the Skia API is really nice for just drawing some text / other primitives onto the screen.

React Native uses Skia under the hood as far as I recall.

I'd love to use Skia. Any template/starter I can look for having both Skia and c++ compiling inside xcode/android studio?