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Crosswalk vs Xamarin Forms: 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, Xamarin Forms is detailed as "* A complete cross-platform UI toolkit for .NET developers*". A mobile application framework for building user interfaces.It easily create native user interface layouts that can be shared across Android, iOS, and Windows Phone.

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

Crosswalk is an open source tool with 2.17K GitHub stars and 569 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Crosswalk's open source repository on GitHub.

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    Essential for Android hybrid apps
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    Improved performance
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    Hybrid desktop apps
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    New Modern Cordova
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    Pretty decent solution to Android WebView issues
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    Native Development SDK with shared C# code-base

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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 Xamarin Forms?

A mobile application framework for building user interfaces.It easily create native user interface layouts that can be shared across Android, iOS, and Windows Phone.

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