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Framework7 vs JUniversal: What are the differences?
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.
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.
Framework7 and JUniversal can be primarily classified as "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" tools.
Some of the features offered by Framework7 are:
- iOS Specific
- UI Components
- Swipe Actions
On the other hand, JUniversal provides the following key features:
- OAuth (based on Scribe)
- JSON
- Unit testing (JUnit)
Framework7 and JUniversal are both open source tools. Framework7 with 14.5K GitHub stars and 3.04K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than JUniversal with 132 GitHub stars and 22 GitHub forks.
Pros of Framework7
- Free and open source21
- Well designed20
- Material design17
- Lots of ready-to-use ui elements, easy to customize15
- Best performance12
- Amazing documentation11
- Nice look and best performance9
- Rtl support9
- Performance and great features.9
- Easy To Learn7
- Free7
- Basic Web App Development Technique6
- Nice sample provided6
- It's feels light to use5
- Quick inital time5
- Easy to use , transit from vanilla JS5
- Doesn't require learning a JS framework5
- Easy to integrate2
Pros of JUniversal
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Cons of Framework7
- Not suitable for high performance in PWA. desktop apps1