Crosswalk Project
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| Initial release | September 1, 2013 |
|---|---|
| Stable release |
20[1]
/ August 22, 2016 |
| Preview release |
22
/ August 19, 2016 |
| Written in | HTML, CSS, JavaScript |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| License | BSD License |
| Website |
www |
The Crosswalk Project is an open source, web application runtime built with the latest releases of Chromium and Blink from Google. These are also used in Google Chrome. The project's focus is to provide the most up-to-date and innovative capabilities to web applications including experimental APIs and extendibility. A web application that bundles the Crosswalk Project runtime can install and run on different Android versions with consistent behaviour and feature parity (Android 4.0 and newer). The project was founded by Intel's Open Source Technology Center in September 2013. It is licensed under the BSD license.
Features and APIs
The primary features include:
- Support for: Android*, iOS (limited), Linux* (currently deb pkgs available), Windows* 10 desktop, and Tizen*.
- Web Audio, WebRTC, Intel® RealSense™ Technology, WebGL, Web Components, Web Workers, CSS Transforms, HTML Canvas 2D Context, Media Queries Level 3
- Experimental APIs:
Compare with other phone web-based frameworks.
Apache Cordova
Apache Cordova is a set of device APIs for accessing device capabilities and sensors. The Crosswalk Project integrates well with Cordova to enable both the Cordova device APIs and the Crosswalk advanced Web Runtime. Starting with Apache Cordova Android 4.0 it is now possible to add a pluggable webview. This simplifies adding the Crosswalk Project webview into a Cordova project.
Tools integrating the Crosswalk Project
The Crosswalk Project is part of the following developer tools:
- AppGyver—A UI framework for building hybrid mobile apps
- Cocos2d-x -- A suite of open-source, cross-platform, game-development tools
- Cordova/PhoneGap—A platform for building native mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- famo.us—A JavaScript framework with an open source 3D layout engine integrated with a 3D physics animation engine that can render to DOM, Canvas, or WebGL
- Intel XDK—A cross-platform development tool to create and deploy web and hybrid apps across multiple app stores and form factor devices.
- ionic—An open source, front-end SDK for developing hybrid mobile apps with HTML5.
- ManifoldJS—A tool to create hosted apps across platforms and devices and package your web experience as native apps across Android, iOS, and Windows.
- Monaca—Cloud-powered tools and services to simplify PhoneGap/Cordova hybrid mobile app development.
- Scirra's Construct 2 -- An HTML5 game creator for 2D games.
- Sencha Web Application Manager—An application platform for deploying and managing web apps on desktops, tablets, and smartphones.
- telerik—An instantly available PhoneGap/Cordova-based development environment that enables cross-platform hybrid mobile apps to be created using HTML5, JavaScript and CSS.
- trigger.io—A hybrid app runtime for the artists and artisans of the web.
Standards
The Crosswalk Project provides a web application framework based on common standards: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and web APIs created and supported by W3C, WHATWG and the TC39.
License
The Crosswalk Project is open source and licensed as BSD. It is free for private and commercial use including source modification.
Versions
Each release cycle is about 6 weeks, incorporating the latest release of Chromium and Blink along with other features and APIs ready at the time. New releases are labeled "Canary" (potentially unstable and higher risk). After validation, a level of quality is reached and the version is labeled "Beta". With further testing it becomes "Stable".