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JUniversal vs ManifoldJS: What are the differences?
What is JUniversal? A new, Java-based approach to cross-platform mobile apps (used by Google Inbox and Google Spreadsheets). The vision of JUniversal came from some guys at Nokia who possess considerable expertise both in Java and in building cross-platform apps. They built this tool to provide an elegant way to translate source code and make it useful across multiple platforms. JUniversal offers you the freedom to write your shared code in Java and then translate it to C# (available now) or to C++/Objective C++ (coming soon). You can also combine JUniversal with Google’s j2objc translator to translate Java to Objective-C for iOS.
What is ManifoldJS? 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.
JUniversal and ManifoldJS can be categorized as "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" tools.
JUniversal and ManifoldJS are both open source tools. ManifoldJS with 1.55K GitHub stars and 132 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than JUniversal with 132 GitHub stars and 22 GitHub forks.