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Crosswalk vs ViroReact: What are the differences?

Developers describe Crosswalk as "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. On the other hand, ViroReact is detailed as "A platform for developers to rapidly build native cross platform AR/VR applications using React Native". It is an open source developer platform for rapidly building AR/VR applications using React Native. Use a single code base for your AR and VR apps.

Crosswalk and ViroReact belong to "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" category of the tech stack.

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, ViroReact provides the following key features:

  • Open source
  • React Native compatible
  • High performance 3D engine

Crosswalk and ViroReact are both open source tools. Crosswalk with 2.22K GitHub stars and 613 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than ViroReact with 137 GitHub stars and 45 GitHub forks.

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    Essential for Android hybrid apps
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    Improved performance
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    Pretty decent solution to Android WebView issues
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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 ViroReact?

    It is an open source developer platform for rapidly building AR/VR applications using React Native. Use a single code base for your AR and VR apps.

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