Why TotalCross

TotalCross Bytecode

Even coding with Java/Kotlin, TC SDK uses anything of these languages on the device. The Java bytecode is converted to optimized TotalCross bytecode. It has been created based on performance statistical researches to identify the operations that are frequently used and have more impact in performance. These operations are compressed in order to reduce the assembly of instructions and to provide low footprint.

TotalCross Virtual Machine

Instead of Jaca Virtual Machine (JVM), which is stack based, TotalCross Virtual Machine (TCVM) is register based. In a few words, it means a simple addition operation, which loads 4 instructions in JVM, it requires loading only one instruction in TCVM, ensuring high performance.

Running higher even with low resources

Make the most of your hardware resources: TotalCross' architecture delivers an amazing user experience over the interface, with high language programming, thanks to low footprint guaranteed. Be prepared to see your application running on any device.

Keeping your application's footprint as low as possible is important to ensure a better performance. That's what we do; TotalCross runtime is currently at 5MB to bring mobile grade experience even for low-end MPUs.

The Corona Chart App was coded with TotalCross. RapidAPI was used to fetch data and send it to the chart. The chart itself was coded in less than 150 lines while the whole app used 4 classes adding up to less than 600 lines of code in total.