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Material vs Origami: What are the differences?
Developers describe Material as "A Graphics Framework for Material Design in Swift". Express your creativity with Material, an animation and graphics framework for Google's Material Design and Apple's Flat UI in Swift. On the other hand, Origami is detailed as "A free design prototyping toolkit for Quartz Composer". Origami is a free toolkit for Quartz Composer—created by the Facebook Design team—that makes interactive design prototyping easy and doesn’t require programming.
Material and Origami can be categorized as "Mobile Prototyping & Interaction Design" tools.
Some of the features offered by Material are:
- Fully Configurable UI Components
- Grid System For Complex UIs
- Layout Library To Simplify AutoLayout
On the other hand, Origami provides the following key features:
- Switch- Toggles between on and off and remembers its current state.
- Scroll- Lets you allow the user to scroll an image.
- Bouncy Animation- Animate a changing value with a bouncy spring.
Material and Origami are both open source tools. It seems that Material with 11K GitHub stars and 1.21K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Origami with 3.35K GitHub stars and 467 GitHub forks.
Pardel Technologies, Working Minds, and Contratobook are some of the popular companies that use Material, whereas Origami is used by Facebook, Lemod, and 42X Studio. Material has a broader approval, being mentioned in 8 company stacks & 8 developers stacks; compared to Origami, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.
Pros of Material
- Good Documentation1
- Samples included1
- IOS benefits1
Pros of Origami
- Free6
- Visualize animations and transitions3
- The Awesomeness2