Cordova: android 7 crosswalk vs native

Question

Just want to hear expert opinion. From your experience is it still worth to use latest Crosswalk (which recently has been announced to stop being actively developed) on Android 7 instead of native webview in terms of performance?

Answer 1

I have just finished a map app, where I use leaflet, vue and Framework7. The app uses a big overlay, has local tiles, a big virtual listview and a lot of markers on a small area.

If I use the app without crosswalk, the speed is "okay", but a little bit slow on modern devices on creating the virtual listview if you scroll with high speed.

On old devices the app is unuseable. One of my oldest devices is a Samsung Tab 2 with lineageos 13 (Android 6) and the app is very, very slow. On my Sony Tablet, Android 4.x the app is nearly dead.

With crosswalk it is running like formula 1 on modern devices and good on old devices.

So, in my next project, where I also need a lot of math, I will also use crosswalk.

Android 7 is nice and much better then older Androids, but slow device hardware is slow and not everybody has a top smartphone or tablet.

Answer 2

'Than', NOT 'Then' huh! Croatians!