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Crosswalk vs GameSparks: What are the differences?
What is Crosswalk? 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.
What is GameSparks? All your server-side needs in one platform: Build, Tune, Manage & Monetize. The unity of the server-side. GameSparks is a cloud-based development platform for games developers enabling them to build all of their game's server-side.
Crosswalk can be classified as a tool in the "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" category, while GameSparks is grouped under "Game Development".
Some of the features offered by Crosswalk are:
- Develop around device fragmentation
- Provide a feature rich experience on all Android 4.x devices
- Easily debug with Chrome DevTools
On the other hand, GameSparks provides the following key features:
- Social & Multiplayer
- Meta-Game & Economies
- Custom Backoffice
Crosswalk is an open source tool with 2.2K GitHub stars and 596 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Crosswalk's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Crosswalk
- Essential for Android hybrid apps2
- Improved performance1
- Hybrid desktop apps1
- New Modern Cordova1
- Pretty decent solution to Android WebView issues1