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Crosswalk vs Framework7: 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 Framework7? Full Featured HTML Framework For Building iOS Apps. Framework7 - 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! Framework7 doesn't force you to write some custom tags that will be converted by JavaScript to something else.

Crosswalk and Framework7 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, Framework7 provides the following key features:

  • iOS Specific
  • UI Components
  • Swipe Actions

Crosswalk and Framework7 are both open source tools. Framework7 with 14.4K GitHub stars and 3.03K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Crosswalk with 2.17K GitHub stars and 567 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Crosswalk
Pros of Framework7
  • 2
    Essential for Android hybrid apps
  • 1
    Improved performance
  • 1
    Hybrid desktop apps
  • 1
    New Modern Cordova
  • 1
    Pretty decent solution to Android WebView issues
  • 21
    Free and open source
  • 20
    Well designed
  • 17
    Material design
  • 15
    Lots of ready-to-use ui elements, easy to customize
  • 12
    Best performance
  • 11
    Amazing documentation
  • 9
    Nice look and best performance
  • 9
    Rtl support
  • 9
    Performance and great features.
  • 7
    Easy To Learn
  • 7
    Free
  • 6
    Basic Web App Development Technique
  • 6
    Nice sample provided
  • 5
    It's feels light to use
  • 5
    Quick inital time
  • 5
    Easy to use , transit from vanilla JS
  • 5
    Doesn't require learning a JS framework
  • 2
    Easy to integrate

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Cons of Crosswalk
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    • 1
      Not suitable for high performance in PWA. desktop 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

    What is 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.

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