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Crosswalk

Replace Android’s default WebView with Crosswalk, a predictable web runtime for developing powerful Android and Cordova apps
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What is Crosswalk?

Crosswalk is a web runtime for ambitious HTML5 applications. All the features of a modern browser, deep device integration and an API for adding native extensions
Crosswalk is a tool in the Cross-Platform Mobile Development category of a tech stack.
Crosswalk is an open source tool with 2.3K GitHub stars and 667 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Crosswalk's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Crosswalk?

Companies

Developers
14 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Crosswalk.

Crosswalk Integrations

Pros of Crosswalk
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Essential for Android hybrid apps
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Improved performance
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Hybrid desktop apps
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New Modern Cordova
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Pretty decent solution to Android WebView issues

Crosswalk's Features

  • Develop around device fragmentation
  • Provide a feature rich experience on all Android 4.x devices
  • Easily debug with Chrome DevTools
  • Improve the performance of your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Crosswalk Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Crosswalk?
React Native
React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. The focus of React Native is on developer efficiency across all the platforms you care about - learn once, write anywhere. Facebook uses React Native in multiple production apps and will continue investing in React Native.
Flutter
Flutter is a mobile app SDK to help developers and designers build modern mobile apps for iOS and Android.
Ionic
Free and open source, Ionic offers a library of mobile and desktop-optimized HTML, CSS and JS components for building highly interactive apps. Use with Angular, React, Vue, or plain JavaScript.
Xamarin
Xamarin’s Mono-based products enable .NET developers to use their existing code, libraries and tools (including Visual Studio*), as well as skills in .NET and the C# programming language, to create mobile applications for the industry’s most widely-used mobile devices, including Android-based smartphones and tablets, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
Apache Cordova
Apache Cordova is a set of device APIs that allow a mobile app developer to access native device function such as the camera or accelerometer from JavaScript. Combined with a UI framework such as jQuery Mobile or Dojo Mobile or Sencha Touch, this allows a smartphone app to be developed with just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
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Crosswalk's Followers
34 developers follow Crosswalk to keep up with related blogs and decisions.