Games and programs that lock the mouse (like first-person shooters) don't work, because the required API wasn't added until 8.0 Oreo. In a post on the company's blog, CodeWeavers said the Android/Chrome OS port 'is the best CrossOver we've ever made.' Program compatibility should be mostly on-par with the desktop CrossOver applications, but there are a few limitations imposed by Android. The port has been continually refined over the past year, and now the invite-only preview has become an open beta. It does this by utilizing Wine, an open-source Windows compatibility layer for Unix-based operating systems (CodeWeavers is one of the main contributors to Wine's codebase).ĬodeWeavers released the first preview build of CrossOver for Android over a year ago, allowing Chrome OS devices with the Play Store (and standalone Android devices) to run Windows applications, as long as they had an x86-based processor.
CrossOver by CodeWeavers has been available for Mac and Linux for years, allowing users of those operating systems to run some Windows programs without a copy of Windows.
