Crosswalk vs JUniversal

Overview

Crosswalk

Stacks16

Followers34

Votes6

GitHub Stars2.3K

Forks651

JUniversal

Stacks1

Followers10

Votes0

GitHub Stars126

Forks15

Crosswalk vs JUniversal: 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 JUniversal? A new, Java-based approach to cross-platform mobile apps (used by Google Inbox and Google Spreadsheets). The vision of JUniversal came from some guys at Nokia who possess considerable expertise both in Java and in building cross-platform apps. They built this tool to provide an elegant way to translate source code and make it useful across multiple platforms. JUniversal offers you the freedom to write your shared code in Java and then translate it to C# (available now) or to C++/Objective C++ (coming soon). You can also combine JUniversal with Google’s j2objc translator to translate Java to Objective-C for iOS.

Crosswalk and JUniversal 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, JUniversal provides the following key features:

OAuth (based on Scribe)
JSON
Unit testing (JUnit)

Crosswalk and JUniversal are both open source tools. It seems that Crosswalk with 2.17K GitHub stars and 569 forks on GitHub has more adoption than JUniversal with 132 GitHub stars and 22 GitHub forks.

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Detailed Comparison

Crosswalk	JUniversal
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	The vision of JUniversal came from some guys at Nokia who possess considerable expertise both in Java and in building cross-platform apps. They built this tool to provide an elegant way to translate source code and make it useful across multiple platforms. JUniversal offers you the freedom to write your shared code in Java and then translate it to C# (available now) or to C++/Objective C++ (coming soon). You can also combine JUniversal with Google’s j2objc translator to translate Java to Objective-C for iOS.
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	OAuth (based on Scribe);JSON;Unit testing (JUnit);File & network I/O platform wrappers;Collections—HashMap, ArrayList, etc. (based on JDK/Harmony);Logging (based of SLF4J/Logback);About 20K lines currently
Statistics
GitHub Stars 2.3K	GitHub Stars 126
GitHub Forks 651	GitHub Forks 15
Stacks 16	Stacks 1
Followers 34	Followers 10
Votes 6	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 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	No community feedback yet
Integrations
Android SDK	Java C#

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