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Crosswalk vs Dropsource: What are the differences?

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

What is Dropsource? Build & publish a native mobile app without writing any code. It is a web-based platform for developing native, data-driven mobile apps. It enables developers of all levels and types to visually build custom mobile apps, without writing any code. Connect to any REST API, share prototypes, install on mobile devices, and get clean, editable Swift or Java code.

Crosswalk and Dropsource can be primarily classified as "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" tools.

Some of the features offered by Crosswalk are:

Develop around device fragmentation
Provide a feature rich experience on all Android 4.x devices
Easily debug with Chrome DevTools

On the other hand, Dropsource provides the following key features:

Drag & drop builder
Full native functionality
Powerful & simple data integration

Crosswalk is an open source tool with 2.18K GitHub stars and 574 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Crosswalk's open source repository on GitHub.

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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

What is Dropsource?

It is a web-based platform for developing native, data-driven mobile apps. It enables developers of all levels and types to visually build custom mobile apps, without writing any code. Connect to any REST API, share prototypes, install on mobile devices, and get clean, editable Swift or Java code.

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What are some alternatives to Crosswalk and Dropsource?

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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