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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

Crosswalk is a tool in the Frameworks category of a tech stack.

Key Features

Develop around device fragmentationProvide a feature rich experience on all Android 4.x devicesEasily debug with Chrome DevToolsImprove the performance of your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Crosswalk Pros & Cons

Pros of Crosswalk

✓Essential for Android hybrid apps
✓Hybrid desktop apps
✓Improved performance
✓New Modern Cordova
✓Pretty decent solution to Android WebView issues

Cons of Crosswalk

No cons listed yet.

Crosswalk Integrations

Android SDK are some of the popular tools that integrate with Crosswalk. Here's a list of all 1 tools that integrate with Crosswalk.

Android SDK

Crosswalk Discussions

Discover why developers choose Crosswalk. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.

ArjunRajJain

Nov 12, 2014

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Crosswalk

Used to implement the webview on Android to make it look and feel native (it replaces Cordova's webview) Crosswalk

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Crosswalk Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Crosswalk?

React Native

React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. The focus of React Native is on developer efficiency across all the platforms you care about - learn once, write anywhere. Facebook uses React Native in multiple production apps and will continue investing in React Native.

Flutter

Flutter is a mobile app SDK to help developers and designers build modern mobile apps for iOS and Android.

Ionic

Free and open source, Ionic offers a library of mobile and desktop-optimized HTML, CSS and JS components for building highly interactive apps. Use with Angular, React, Vue, or plain JavaScript.

Xamarin

Xamarin’s Mono-based products enable .NET developers to use their existing code, libraries and tools (including Visual Studio*), as well as skills in .NET and the C# programming language, to create mobile applications for the industry’s most widely-used mobile devices, including Android-based smartphones and tablets, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

Expo

It is a framework and a platform for universal React applications. It is a set of tools and services built around React Native and native platforms that help you develop, build, deploy, and quickly iterate on iOS, Android, and web apps.

Apache Cordova

Apache Cordova is a set of device APIs that allow a mobile app developer to access native device function such as the camera or accelerometer from JavaScript. Combined with a UI framework such as jQuery Mobile or Dojo Mobile or Sencha Touch, this allows a smartphone app to be developed with just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.