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Crosswalk vs PyQt: 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 PyQt? A GUI widgets toolkit. It is a set of Python v2 and v3 bindings for Qt application framework and runs on all platforms supported by Qt including Windows, OS X, Linux, iOS and Android. PyQt5 supports Qt v5. PyQt4 supports Qt v4 and will build against Qt v5. The bindings are implemented as a set of Python modules and contain over 1,000 classes.
Crosswalk and PyQt belong to "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" category of the tech stack.
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.
Pros of Crosswalk
- Essential for Android hybrid apps2
- Improved performance1
- Hybrid desktop apps1
- New Modern Cordova1
- Pretty decent solution to Android WebView issues1