Crosswalk is a web runtime for HTML5 applications. It provides all the features of a modern browser, combined with deep device integration and an API for adding native extensions.
Crosswalk runtime can be used for creating HTML5 application with a dedicated runtime that can be run on multiple platforms without any dependency for webview. It can be used for creating application that uses HTML5 features like WebRTC, hardware-accelerated WebGL support and bleeding edge HTML5 features.
Crosswalk runtime based HTML5 applications can be built for Android (version 4.0 and above), Tizen Mobile, Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
What is Crosswalk for?
If you are a developer working with web technologies, Crosswalk enables you to deploy a web application with its own dedicated runtime. This means three things:
- You can distribute your web application via app stores.
- Your application won't break in whatever ancient webviews or browsers your audience is using, as you control the runtime and its upgrade cycle.
- You can build applications without worrying so much about runtime differences and quirks: you only have one runtime to deal with.
What can Application Developers do with Crosswalk runtime?
- Use all the features available in modern web browsers: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript.
- Access the latest recommended and emerging web standards.
- Use experimental APIs not available in mainstream web browsers.
- Control the upgrade cycle of an application by distributing it with its own runtime.
- Add custom extensions to an application, to leverage platform features not exposed by Crosswalk or the standardized web platform.
Crosswalk is open source project, released under a BSD licence. The project was founded by Intel's Open Source Technology Center. Intel XDK (HTML5 development environment) can be used to build Android apps with Crosswalk runtime.
