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Developers describe ManifoldJS as "Create mobile apps from websites". manifoldJS takes the meta-data about your site and generates native "hosted" apps. If the platform doesn't support hosted apps, we use Cordova to polyfill it. manifoldJS is based on the latest W3C Manifest working draft. 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.

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

ManifoldJS is an open source tool with 1.55K GitHub stars and 132 GitHub forks. Here's a link to ManifoldJS's open source repository on GitHub.

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    What is ManifoldJS?

    manifoldJS takes the meta-data about your site and generates native "hosted" apps. If the platform doesn't support hosted apps, we use Cordova to polyfill it. manifoldJS is based on the latest W3C Manifest working draft.

    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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