Remix OS for PC update brings Android 6.0, multi-window improvements

Jide’s Remix OS is a customized version of Google Android designed for laptop and desktop computers. It ships on a handful of notebooks, mini PCs, and other devices, and earlier this year Jide released the first version of Remix OS for PC, allowing anyone to download the operating system and try it out on many computers with Intel or AMD chips.


Now Jide is launching a major update to Remix OS for PC. The new version is based Android 6.0 (instead of Android 5.1), and includes support for additional hardware including computers with NVIDIA and AMD graphics.

The update brings the version number of the operating system up to Remix OS 3.0, and it also brings new features to one of the operating system’s hallmark features: the ability to run multiple Android apps in resizable windows that can be positioned anywhere on the screen.

Remix OS lets you run most Android apps, but the user interface includes classic Windows-style elements including a taskbar and start menu.

You can also view multiple apps at once, a feature that’s only coming to the official version of Android starting with version 7.0. Multi-window features in Remix OS are much more advanced than in Android 7.0 though, and the latest update includes a few new features including:

There’s a new button that lets you resize a window specifically to accommodate the app’s content, so the layout shouldn’t look funky.
You can now drag any edge of an app window to resize it. Previously you could only do this from the top.
When you hit the maximize button for video apps, they’ll now run in full-screen mode, which means you won’t see a frame around the window.

If you’re already using an earlier version of Remix OS for PC, you’ll need to do a clean install to move to the new version based on Android 6.0. There’s no OTA update option yet.​

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