diff --git a/druid-shell/Cargo.toml b/druid-shell/Cargo.toml
index 3fb678e306..1d07fe5868 100755
--- a/druid-shell/Cargo.toml
+++ b/druid-shell/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ default-target = "x86_64-pc-windows-msvc"
 default = ["gtk"]
 gtk = ["gio", "gdk", "gdk-sys", "glib", "glib-sys", "gtk-sys", "gtk-rs", "gdk-pixbuf"]
 x11 = ["x11rb", "nix", "cairo-sys-rs"]
+# Implement HasRawWindowHandle for WindowHandle 
+raw-win-handle = ["raw-window-handle"]
 
 # passing on all the image features. AVIF is not supported because it does not
 # support decoding, and that's all we use `Image` for.
@@ -51,6 +53,7 @@ keyboard-types = { version = "0.5.0", default_features = false }
 
 # Optional dependencies
 image = { version = "0.23.12", optional = true, default_features = false }
+raw-window-handle = { version = "0.3.3", optional = true, default_features = false }
 
 [target.'cfg(target_os="windows")'.dependencies]
 scopeguard = "1.1.0"
diff --git a/druid-shell/src/platform/gtk/window.rs b/druid-shell/src/platform/gtk/window.rs
index 0a235ca2f9..907e719b6f 100644
--- a/druid-shell/src/platform/gtk/window.rs
+++ b/druid-shell/src/platform/gtk/window.rs
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ use gio::ApplicationExt;
 use gtk::prelude::*;
 use gtk::{AccelGroup, ApplicationWindow, DrawingArea, SettingsExt};
 
+#[cfg(feature = "raw-win-handle")]
+use raw_window_handle::{HasRawWindowHandle, RawWindowHandle};
+
 use crate::kurbo::{Insets, Point, Rect, Size, Vec2};
 use crate::piet::{Piet, PietText, RenderContext};
 
@@ -94,6 +97,15 @@ pub struct WindowHandle {
     marker: std::marker::PhantomData<*const ()>,
 }
 
+#[cfg(feature = "raw-win-handle")]
+unsafe impl HasRawWindowHandle for WindowHandle {
+    fn raw_window_handle(&self) -> RawWindowHandle {
+        error!("HasRawWindowHandle trait not implemented for gtk.");
+        // GTK is not a platform, and there's no empty generic handle. Pick XCB randomly as fallback.
+        RawWindowHandle::Xcb(XcbHandle::empty())
+    }
+}
+
 /// Operations that we defer in order to avoid re-entrancy. See the documentation in the windows
 /// backend for more details.
 enum DeferredOp {
diff --git a/druid-shell/src/platform/mac/window.rs b/druid-shell/src/platform/mac/window.rs
index ed74eeff5f..e23e2b63b3 100644
--- a/druid-shell/src/platform/mac/window.rs
+++ b/druid-shell/src/platform/mac/window.rs
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ use objc::rc::WeakPtr;
 use objc::runtime::{Class, Object, Sel};
 use objc::{class, msg_send, sel, sel_impl};
 
+#[cfg(feature = "raw-win-handle")]
+use raw_window_handle::{macos::MacOSHandle, HasRawWindowHandle, RawWindowHandle};
+
 use crate::kurbo::{Insets, Point, Rect, Size, Vec2};
 use crate::piet::{Piet, PietText, RenderContext};
 
@@ -1214,6 +1217,18 @@ impl WindowHandle {
     }
 }
 
+#[cfg(feature = "raw-win-handle")]
+unsafe impl HasRawWindowHandle for WindowHandle {
+    fn raw_window_handle(&self) -> RawWindowHandle {
+        let nsv = self.nsview.load();
+        let handle = MacOSHandle {
+            ns_view: *nsv as *mut _,
+            ..MacOSHandle::empty()
+        };
+        RawWindowHandle::MacOS(handle)
+    }
+}
+
 unsafe impl Send for IdleHandle {}
 
 impl IdleHandle {
diff --git a/druid-shell/src/platform/web/window.rs b/druid-shell/src/platform/web/window.rs
index 3e16852106..99a226bced 100644
--- a/druid-shell/src/platform/web/window.rs
+++ b/druid-shell/src/platform/web/window.rs
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ use instant::Instant;
 use wasm_bindgen::prelude::*;
 use wasm_bindgen::JsCast;
 
+#[cfg(feature = "raw-win-handle")]
+use raw_window_handle::{HasRawWindowHandle, RawWindowHandle};
+
 use crate::kurbo::{Insets, Point, Rect, Size, Vec2};
 
 use crate::piet::{PietText, RenderContext};
@@ -75,6 +78,14 @@ pub(crate) struct WindowBuilder {
 #[derive(Clone, Default)]
 pub struct WindowHandle(Weak<WindowState>);
 
+#[cfg(feature = "raw-win-handle")]
+unsafe impl HasRawWindowHandle for WindowHandle {
+    fn raw_window_handle(&self) -> RawWindowHandle {
+        error!("HasRawWindowHandle trait not implemented for wasm.");
+        RawWindowHandle::Web(WebHandle::empty())
+    }
+}
+
 /// A handle that can get used to schedule an idle handler. Note that
 /// this handle is thread safe.
 #[derive(Clone)]
diff --git a/druid-shell/src/platform/windows/window.rs b/druid-shell/src/platform/windows/window.rs
index 1976493cff..32d8f1d91a 100644
--- a/druid-shell/src/platform/windows/window.rs
+++ b/druid-shell/src/platform/windows/window.rs
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ use winapi::um::wingdi::*;
 use winapi::um::winnt::*;
 use winapi::um::winuser::*;
 
+#[cfg(feature = "raw-win-handle")]
+use raw_window_handle::{windows::WindowsHandle, HasRawWindowHandle, RawWindowHandle};
+
 use piet_common::d2d::{D2DFactory, DeviceContext};
 use piet_common::dwrite::DwriteFactory;
 
@@ -159,6 +162,26 @@ pub struct WindowHandle {
     state: Weak<WindowState>,
 }
 
+#[cfg(feature = "raw-win-handle")]
+unsafe impl HasRawWindowHandle for WindowHandle {
+    fn raw_window_handle(&self) -> RawWindowHandle {
+        if let Some(hwnd) = self.get_hwnd() {
+            let handle = WindowsHandle {
+                hwnd: hwnd as *mut core::ffi::c_void,
+                hinstance: unsafe {
+                    winapi::um::libloaderapi::GetModuleHandleW(0 as winapi::um::winnt::LPCWSTR)
+                        as *mut core::ffi::c_void
+                },
+                ..WindowsHandle::empty()
+            };
+            RawWindowHandle::Windows(handle)
+        } else {
+            error!("Cannot retrieved HWND for window.");
+            RawWindowHandle::Windows(WindowsHandle::empty())
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 /// A handle that can get used to schedule an idle handler. Note that
 /// this handle is thread safe. If the handle is used after the hwnd
 /// has been destroyed, probably not much will go wrong (the DS_RUN_IDLE
diff --git a/druid-shell/src/platform/x11/window.rs b/druid-shell/src/platform/x11/window.rs
index 87f7a1e0a0..14f6343f74 100644
--- a/druid-shell/src/platform/x11/window.rs
+++ b/druid-shell/src/platform/x11/window.rs
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ use x11rb::protocol::xproto::{
 use x11rb::wrapper::ConnectionExt as _;
 use x11rb::xcb_ffi::XCBConnection;
 
+#[cfg(feature = "raw-win-handle")]
+use raw_window_handle::{HasRawWindowHandle, RawWindowHandle};
+
 use crate::common_util::IdleCallback;
 use crate::dialog::FileDialogOptions;
 use crate::error::Error as ShellError;
@@ -1547,3 +1550,11 @@ impl WindowHandle {
         }
     }
 }
+
+#[cfg(feature = "raw-win-handle")]
+unsafe impl HasRawWindowHandle for WindowHandle {
+    fn raw_window_handle(&self) -> RawWindowHandle {
+        error!("HasRawWindowHandle trait not implemented for x11.");
+        RawWindowHandle::Xcb(XcbHandle::empty())
+    }
+}
diff --git a/druid-shell/src/window.rs b/druid-shell/src/window.rs
index eb779d6e2a..16f4ad1725 100644
--- a/druid-shell/src/window.rs
+++ b/druid-shell/src/window.rs
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ use crate::platform::window as platform;
 use crate::region::Region;
 use crate::scale::Scale;
 use piet_common::PietText;
+#[cfg(feature = "raw-win-handle")]
+use raw_window_handle::{HasRawWindowHandle, RawWindowHandle};
 
 /// A token that uniquely identifies a running timer.
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Hash)]
@@ -338,6 +340,13 @@ impl WindowHandle {
     }
 }
 
+#[cfg(feature = "raw-win-handle")]
+unsafe impl HasRawWindowHandle for WindowHandle {
+    fn raw_window_handle(&self) -> RawWindowHandle {
+        self.0.raw_window_handle()
+    }
+}
+
 /// A builder type for creating new windows.
 pub struct WindowBuilder(platform::WindowBuilder);