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Crosswalk vs Web Starter Kit: What are the differences?
Developers describe Crosswalk as "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. On the other hand, Web Starter Kit is detailed as "Boilerplate & Tooling for Multi-Device Development". Web Starter Kit is a starting point for multi-screen web development. It encompasses opinionated recommendations on boilerplate and tooling for building an experience that works great across multiple devices. We help you stay productive and aligned with the best practices outlined in Google's Web Fundamentals.
Crosswalk and Web Starter Kit can be categorized as "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" tools.
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, Web Starter Kit provides the following key features:
- Multi-device responsive boilerplate
- Living component style guide
- Cross-device Synchronization
Crosswalk and Web Starter Kit are both open source tools. It seems that Web Starter Kit with 18.6K GitHub stars and 3.21K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Crosswalk with 2.17K GitHub stars and 569 GitHub forks.
Pros of Crosswalk
- Essential for Android hybrid apps2
- Improved performance1
- Hybrid desktop apps1
- New Modern Cordova1
- Pretty decent solution to Android WebView issues1
Pros of Web Starter Kit
- Easy to use3