Wine being ported to run Windows apps on Android

Victor Barreiro Jr.

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Wine for Android is currently in the works, and will allow users to run Windows apps on the Android OS when it's ready

WINDOWS, WINE, AND ANDROID. The folks behind Wine hope to make Windows app run on Android. Logos courtesy of Microsoft, Android, and Wine.

MANILA, Philippines – Wine is a compatibility layer that allows for the operation of Windows programs on Linux, Mac OSX and BSD. Development is in the works to add onto Wine, allowing Windows applications to run on Android.

Alexandre Julliard, the developer of the Wine compatibility layer, recently gave an update on Wine’s status at this year’s Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM).

As technology website Phoronix reports, Julliard demonstrated Wine running on Android. They noted, however, that performance was slow at the demonstration. This was attributed to the attempt to run the demo on an emulation of the Android mobile operating system instead of an actual Android device.

No official word has been given regarding how far they are from completion. Still, something that would allow Windows programs to run well on Android could be a commercially interesting opportunity for the coders working on Wine. – Rappler.com

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Victor Barreiro Jr.

Victor Barreiro Jr is part of Rappler's Central Desk. An avid patron of role-playing games and science fiction and fantasy shows, he also yearns to do good in the world, and hopes his work with Rappler helps to increase the good that's out there.