CodeWeavers Will Soon Release CrossOver/Wine For Android, DirectX11 Support Progressing

[phoronix]

Phoronix: CodeWeavers Will Soon Release CrossOver/Wine For Android, DirectX11 Support Progressing

Since early 2014 we've seen Wine running on Android and now it looks like before the end of the year CodeWeavers will release a version of CrossOver for Android along with publishing the associated Wine patches...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=CrossOver-Android-x86-Update

[Dukenukemx]

What most Phoronix readers are interested in though is the release of Wine/CrossOver for Android,

The what? Nah man we're waiting for DX11 and Gallium-Nine support. Next thing you'll tell us is that we're waiting for Steam on Android. No wait, that's actually a pretty cool idea.

[Guest]

I could definitely use Wine on Android. I have a high-end x86_64 Android tablet currently (Z580CA) and can't find any use for this hardware... Wine would help out greatly with that

Of course... if I could just install native Linux onto this thing, then I probably wouldn't care at all.

Now the question is, how soon is "soon"?

[Kemosabe]

Since Android has nothing in common with a "normal" Linux distribution except some special per-device adapted Kernel including properitary modules i really have no clue why a phoronix reader should care about Android in a special manner.

If i would have some interest in a mobile OS it was SailfishOS - of course.

[ElectricPrism]

Next thing you'll tell us is that we're waiting for Steam on Android. No wait, that's actually a pretty cool idea.

I actually have tried VNCing into my Linux from a Android Tablet - it's pretty sweet.

As for Steam Gaming on Android? I'll pass, most games aren't build to be compiled for ARM and a fair amount of their libraries likely don't even compile on ARM yet. Not to mention the performance differential of ARM to x86 isn't even comparable yet. ARM_64 is (from my POV) making an entry at a glaciers speed.

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CodeWeavers/WINE on Android? Cool. I think the market would jump for joy if it was easy enough to run Windows Apps on Android via WINE even at cost. Although, I am concerned that most Windows Apps won't perform as ARM was never designer to run x86 binaries.

Believe me, I would love nothing more than to play StarCraft BroodWar on a Tablet - that would be hella sweet.

[Guest]

CodeWeavers/WINE on Android? Cool. I think the market would jump for joy if it was easy enough to run Windows Apps on Android via WINE even at cost. Although, I am concerned that most Windows Apps won't perform as ARM was never designer to run x86 binaries.

Believe me, I would love nothing more than to play StarCraft BroodWar on a Tablet - that would be hella sweet.

Judging by the article, Wine for Android will only be for Intel x86-compliant devices and not ARM (at least officially; I think there is some unofficial port of Wine currently that does ARM-to-x86).

[NateHubbard]

... ARM ... ARM ... ARM ... ARM_64 ... ARM

I'm guessing you didn't read the article?

[kyvaith]

Now imagine: CossOver + http://andex.exton.net/?p=372 (Android x86 with Mesa with Gallium, RadeonSI, Nouveau) + http://www.jide.com/en/remixos = TOTAL Desktop Linux KILLER

This combination should be a new redistributable ChromeOS. It wins with donz of Android Apps (with M$ Office) and ability to play desktop games. IMO it would twice the Android Apps market.

Actually I made an attempt to make something similar last year: https://plus.google.com/+TomaszWitke/posts/C8qvADQc11R