diff --git a/app/internal/windows/windows.go b/app/internal/windows/windows.go
index d79a650d6..d357f6307 100644
--- a/app/internal/windows/windows.go
+++ b/app/internal/windows/windows.go
@@ -349,6 +349,8 @@ var (
 	_ReleaseDC                   = user32.NewProc("ReleaseDC")
 	_ScreenToClient              = user32.NewProc("ScreenToClient")
 	_ShowWindow                  = user32.NewProc("ShowWindow")
+	_CloseWindow                 = user32.NewProc("CloseWindow")
+	_SetParent                   = user32.NewProc("SetParent")
 	_SetCapture                  = user32.NewProc("SetCapture")
 	_SetCursor                   = user32.NewProc("SetCursor")
 	_SetClipboardData            = user32.NewProc("SetClipboardData")
@@ -742,6 +744,14 @@ func SetForegroundWindow(hwnd syscall.Handle) {
 	_SetForegroundWindow.Call(uintptr(hwnd))
 }
 
+func SetParent(hwndc, hwndp syscall.Handle) {
+	_SetParent.Call(uintptr(hwndc), uintptr(hwndp))
+}
+
+func CloseWindow(hwnd syscall.Handle) {
+	_CloseWindow.Call(uintptr(hwnd))
+}
+
 func SetFocus(hwnd syscall.Handle) {
 	_SetFocus.Call(uintptr(hwnd))
 }
diff --git a/app/linked/linked.go b/app/linked/linked.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fc3797c94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/linked/linked.go
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+package linked
+
+import "image"
+
+type LinkedView interface {
+	// Using app.ViewEvent to Parent() a native window
+	Parent(interface{})
+	Move(image.Rectangle)
+	Show()
+	Hide()
+	Destroy()
+}
diff --git a/app/linked/linked_windows.go b/app/linked/linked_windows.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3e67cee92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/linked/linked_windows.go
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+package linked
+
+import (
+	"image"
+
+	"gioui.org/app/internal/windows"
+
+	syscall "golang.org/x/sys/windows"
+)
+
+type Link struct {
+	Handle syscall.Handle
+}
+
+func New(v uintptr) Link {
+	return Link{Handle: syscall.Handle(v)}
+}
+
+func (W Link) Parent(P interface{}) {
+	windows.SetParent(W.Handle, syscall.Handle(P.(uintptr)))
+}
+
+func (W Link) Move(r image.Rectangle) {
+	windows.MoveWindow(W.Handle, int32(r.Min.X), int32(r.Min.Y), int32(r.Dx()), int32(r.Dy()), false)
+}
+
+func (W Link) Show() {
+	windows.ShowWindow(W.Handle, 1)
+}
+
+func (W Link) Hide() {
+	windows.ShowWindow(W.Handle, 0)
+}
+
+func (W Link) Destroy() {
+	windows.CloseWindow(W.Handle)
+}
diff --git a/gpu/gpu.go b/gpu/gpu.go
index cb566edb9..b5a90da80 100644
--- a/gpu/gpu.go
+++ b/gpu/gpu.go
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import (
 	"time"
 	"unsafe"
 
+	"gioui.org/app/linked"
 	"gioui.org/gpu/internal/driver"
 	"gioui.org/internal/byteslice"
 	"gioui.org/internal/f32"
@@ -101,6 +102,8 @@ type drawState struct {
 	stop2  f32.Point
 	color1 color.NRGBA
 	color2 color.NRGBA
+
+	handle *linked.LinkedView
 }
 
 type pathOp struct {
@@ -159,6 +162,8 @@ type material struct {
 	// For materialTypeTexture.
 	data    imageOpData
 	uvTrans f32.Affine2D
+
+	handle *linked.LinkedView
 }
 
 // imageOpData is the shadow of paint.ImageOp.
@@ -222,6 +227,13 @@ func decodeLinearGradientOp(data []byte) linearGradientOpData {
 	}
 }
 
+func decodeLinkedViewOp(data []byte, refs []interface{}) *linked.LinkedView {
+	if len(refs) > 0 {
+		return refs[0].(*linked.LinkedView)
+	}
+	return new(linked.LinkedView)
+}
+
 type clipType uint8
 
 type resource interface {
@@ -296,6 +308,7 @@ const (
 	materialColor materialType = iota
 	materialLinearGradient
 	materialTexture
+	materialLinkedView
 )
 
 // New creates a GPU for the given API.
@@ -924,6 +937,9 @@ loop:
 		case ops.TypeImage:
 			state.matType = materialTexture
 			state.image = decodeImageOp(encOp.Data, encOp.Refs)
+		case ops.TypeLinkedView:
+			state.matType = materialLinkedView
+			state.handle = decodeLinkedViewOp(encOp.Data, encOp.Refs)
 		case ops.TypePaint:
 			// Transform (if needed) the painting rectangle and if so generate a clip path,
 			// for those cases also compute a partialTrans that maps texture coordinates between
@@ -1035,6 +1051,9 @@ func (d *drawState) materialFor(rect f32.Rectangle, off f32.Point, partTrans f32
 		uvScale, uvOffset := texSpaceTransform(sr, sz)
 		m.uvTrans = partTrans.Mul(f32.Affine2D{}.Scale(f32.Point{}, uvScale).Offset(uvOffset))
 		m.data = d.image
+	case materialLinkedView:
+		m.material = materialLinkedView
+		m.handle = d.handle
 	}
 	return m
 }
@@ -1076,6 +1095,10 @@ func (r *renderer) drawOps(cache *resourceCache, ops []imageOp) {
 		switch m.material {
 		case materialTexture:
 			r.ctx.BindTexture(0, r.texHandle(cache, m.data))
+
+		case materialLinkedView:
+			(*m.handle).Move(img.clip)
+			continue
 		}
 		drc := img.clip
 
diff --git a/internal/ops/ops.go b/internal/ops/ops.go
index fff43ad35..f9c52df31 100644
--- a/internal/ops/ops.go
+++ b/internal/ops/ops.go
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ const (
 	TypeSnippet
 	TypeSelection
 	TypeActionInput
+	TypeLinkedView
 )
 
 type StackID struct {
@@ -160,6 +161,7 @@ const (
 	TypeSnippetLen          = 1 + 4 + 4
 	TypeSelectionLen        = 1 + 2*4 + 2*4 + 4 + 4
 	TypeActionInputLen      = 1 + 1
+	TypeLinkedViewLen       = 1
 )
 
 func (op *ClipOp) Decode(data []byte) {
@@ -417,6 +419,7 @@ var opProps = [0x100]opProp{
 	TypeSnippet:          {Size: TypeSnippetLen, NumRefs: 2},
 	TypeSelection:        {Size: TypeSelectionLen, NumRefs: 1},
 	TypeActionInput:      {Size: TypeActionInputLen, NumRefs: 0},
+	TypeLinkedView:       {Size: TypeLinkedViewLen, NumRefs: 1},
 }
 
 func (t OpType) props() (size, numRefs int) {
diff --git a/op/paint/paint.go b/op/paint/paint.go
index 1c992973a..e0cf06b2e 100644
--- a/op/paint/paint.go
+++ b/op/paint/paint.go
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import (
 	"image/draw"
 	"math"
 
+	"gioui.org/app/linked"
 	"gioui.org/f32"
 	"gioui.org/internal/ops"
 	"gioui.org/op"
@@ -145,3 +146,21 @@ func Fill(ops *op.Ops, c color.NRGBA) {
 	ColorOp{Color: c}.Add(ops)
 	PaintOp{}.Add(ops)
 }
+
+type LinkedViewOp struct {
+	address *linked.LinkedView
+	area    image.Point
+}
+
+func NewLinkedViewOp(src linked.LinkedView, area image.Point) LinkedViewOp {
+	return LinkedViewOp{address: &src, area: area}
+}
+
+func (i LinkedViewOp) Add(o *op.Ops) {
+	data := ops.Write1(&o.Internal, ops.TypeLinkedViewLen, i.address)
+	data[0] = byte(ops.TypeLinkedView)
+}
+
+func (i LinkedViewOp) Size() image.Point {
+	return i.area
+}
diff --git a/widget/image.go b/widget/image.go
index c30941d9b..ef6470ac4 100644
--- a/widget/image.go
+++ b/widget/image.go
@@ -53,3 +53,43 @@ func (im Image) Layout(gtx layout.Context) layout.Dimensions {
 
 	return dims
 }
+
+// Native is a widget that displays an native window.
+// Basically mimicking behaviour of Image widget.
+type Native struct {
+	// Src is the link to display with.
+	Src paint.LinkedViewOp
+	// Fit specifies how to scale the view to the constraints.
+	// By default it does not do any scaling.
+	Fit Fit
+	// Position specifies where to position the view within
+	// the constraints.
+	Position layout.Direction
+	// Scale is the ratio of image pixels to
+	// dps. If Scale is zero Image falls back to
+	// a scale that match a standard 72 DPI.
+	Scale float32
+}
+
+func (im Native) Layout(gtx layout.Context) layout.Dimensions {
+	scale := im.Scale
+	if scale == 0 {
+		scale = defaultScale
+	}
+
+	size := im.Src.Size()
+	wf, hf := float32(size.X), float32(size.Y)
+	w, h := gtx.Dp(unit.Dp(wf*scale)), gtx.Dp(unit.Dp(hf*scale))
+
+	dims, trans := im.Fit.scale(gtx.Constraints, im.Position, layout.Dimensions{Size: image.Pt(w, h)})
+	defer clip.Rect{Max: dims.Size}.Push(gtx.Ops).Pop()
+
+	pixelScale := scale * gtx.Metric.PxPerDp
+	trans = trans.Mul(f32.Affine2D{}.Scale(f32.Point{}, f32.Pt(pixelScale, pixelScale)))
+	defer op.Affine(trans).Push(gtx.Ops).Pop()
+
+	im.Src.Add(gtx.Ops)
+	paint.PaintOp{}.Add(gtx.Ops)
+
+	return dims
+}