Apache Flex vs Expo

Overview

Apache Flex

Stacks14

Followers14

Votes0

Expo

Stacks811

Followers693

Votes66

Expo vs Apache Flex: What are the differences?

Developers describe Expo as "Making React Native Easier". Exponent lets web developers build truly native apps that work across both iOS and Android by writing them once in just JavaScript. On the other hand, Apache Flex is detailed as "The open-source framework for building expressive web and mobile applications". It is a software development kit for the development and deployment of cross-platform rich Internet applications based on the Adobe Flash platform.

Expo and Apache Flex can be categorized as "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" tools.

Expo is an open source tool with 7.46K GitHub stars and 960 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Expo's open source repository on GitHub.

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Detailed Comparison

Apache Flex	Expo
It is a software development kit for the development and deployment of cross-platform rich Internet applications based on the Adobe Flash platform.	It is a framework and a platform for universal React applications. It is a set of tools and services built around React Native and native platforms that help you develop, build, deploy, and quickly iterate on iOS, Android, and web apps.
UI components; Buttons; Forms; Containers; Lists; Data grids	-
Statistics
Stacks 14	Stacks 811
Followers 14	Followers 693
Votes 0	Votes 66
Pros & Cons
No community feedback yet	Pros 15 Free 13 Hot Reload 9 Easy to learn 9 Common ios and android app setup 6 Streamlined
Integrations
Bootstrap Ionic HTML5 CSS 3 .NET for Apache Spark	React Native

What are some alternatives to Apache Flex, Expo?

Ionic

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Flutter

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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.

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.

NativeScript

NativeScript enables developers to build native apps for iOS, Android and Windows Universal while sharing the application code across the platforms. When building the application UI, developers use our libraries, which abstract the differences between the native platforms.

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.

Framework7

It is a free and open source mobile HTML framework to develop hybrid mobile apps or web apps with iOS native look and feel. All you need to make it work is a simple HTML layout and attached framework's CSS and JS files.

Qt

Qt, a leading cross-platform application and UI framework. With Qt, you can develop applications once and deploy to leading desktop, embedded & mobile targets.

PhoneGap

PhoneGap is a web platform that exposes native mobile device apis and data to JavaScript. PhoneGap is a distribution of Apache Cordova. PhoneGap allows you to use standard web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript for cross-platform development, avoiding each mobile platforms' native development language. Applications execute within wrappers targeted to each platform, and rely on standards-compliant API bindings to access each device's sensors, data, and network status.

Vue Native

Vue Native is a mobile framework to build truly native mobile app using Vue.js. Its is designed to connect React Native and Vue.js. Vue Native is a wrapper around React Native APIs, which allows you to use Vue.js and compose rich mobile User Interface.