Wine 3.0 Released, Enables You To Run Windows And Linux Apps On Your Android Device

Wine 3.0 now available for Android phone: Wine enables you to run Windows and Linux apps on your Android device.

Wine is a well-known software which provide its users with the ability to run Windows apps on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, and now, wine has released a version that will allow it's users do the same on Android devices.

Wine was introduced in 1993 which has free and open-source compatibility layer that allows computer programs developed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems. With the ability of Winelib Software, developers compile Windows applications to help port them to other systems. Wine also maintains a database of compatible programs.

Two years back, In 2016, CodeWeavers "the maker of Wine" had released the tech preview of crossOver Android to the select users. Later in early last year, January 2017, Wine 2.0 was released With improved Mac compatibility and Microsoft Office support

The recent Wine 3.0 release is finally here after a long awaited period of a year of development effort. According to the developer team, the new package brings about some 6,000 changes to be precise. same on Android device.
Hence, it's the result of over a year of work and marks the beginning of a new annual release cycle.

Notably, since Wine is a compatibility layer it does not fully support smartphones with ARM processors and instead works well with x86 Android handsets. For smartphones with ARM processors, only apps that are ported to Windows RT work well. XDA Developers forum has a list of such apps.

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What’s new in Wine 3.0:
A major highlight of Wine 3.0 is a significant number of Direct3D 10 and 11 changes that have been incorporated in this release. These new features of Direct3D include Computer shaders, Stream output, Structured buffers, Format compatibility queries, Hull and domain shaders, Depth bias, etc.

Direct3D’s multi-threaded command stream feature serializes Direct3D rendering commands into a single threat. This results in rendering correctness and performance improvement. Also, the Direct3D graphics card database now recognizes more graphics cards. The support for OpenGL core contexts in Direct3D too has been improved.

For Android developers and users, there are some welcome changes as well. Wine can now be built as an APK and one can use it as a proper Android app. Full graphics and audio drivers are also implemented.

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However, there could be some limitations right now with the newly updated app. As per Android Police, the app opened on a OnePlus 5T smartphone but crashed on a Samsung Galaxy Tab S, and froze on a Google Pixel handset.

Download Wine 3.0:
You can visit Wine 3.0 website and download source. The respective binary packages for Linux distros and macOS can also be found on the same page.