Windows Subsystem For Android on Windows 10 (Running Android Games and Apps on Windows 10

GitHub ^ | 12-15-2023 | MustardChef

[Jonty30]

native -> windows -> native?

DOS.

[TheCipher]

I have been using computers since the mid 70s,

Me too. My first one was the Wang 2000 with a tape drive. Had one in the classroom with an 8 inch floppy drive (of course we ( the guys ) always liked shouting "Who is using the floppy Wang today )

[Political Junkie Too]

I had one of these as a kid.

-PJ

[Red Badger]

Ping!......

[sauropod]

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[Codeflier]

Thanks. My favorite type of thread.

[SaveFerris]

Somebody please tell me how to port my Fallout Shelter game from one (temporary) Android phone to another (it’s got such a high score)

It’s like when I played Frogger in high school at the pizza shop....

[Openurmind]

Linux has an application that has been around forever called exactly that, “Redshift” and it does exactly the same.

[Openurmind]

“My goal here was to share a project that adds utility to a computer and does not cost anything.”

I caught your intentions. It is a cool thing to do for those here using windows.

But would also like to share that for Linux users there are also apps for Linux that allow you to run Android apps if they like.

https://www.slant.co/topics/18201/~ways-to-run-android-applications-on-linux

[dennisw]

Redshift is awful. I have installed Mint a few times and it is awful.

[Openurmind]

I honestly never needed redshift so have no clue how well it works. Sounds like you have specific special needs most would not. Too bad you judge all of Linux based on that one personal special need.

“I have installed Mint a few times and it is awful.”

Obviously not recently or you didn’t take time to understand it. Because it is the best Linux OS out there right now. It is almost Win 7 in function. It is not awful if I have not had to update or repair this Mint install for almost eight years now.

[dennisw]

When using Linux Mint. At least red shift comes pre-installed, It has only one adjustment. While win-11 has adjustments across a range.

I used to use a program called Flux to do these adjustments. It works great too.

https://justgetflux.com/
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[dennisw]

Me no use Apple. But long ago they added a red shift adjustment that works across a range of blue-red. For their phones and laptops.

Chrome OS? Low blue light. They have it too!
https://www.androidcentral.com/how-enable-night-light-chrome-os

[fireman15]

But would also like to share that for Linux users there are also apps for Linux that allow you to run Android apps if they like.

Thank you very much for the link!

The way that I have it set up... my primary laptop boots fastest into Ubuntu and I have Steam installed in Ubuntu for playing my collection of Windows based games and flight simulators which works surprisingly well. Many programs and games can be very demanding especially in higher resolutions, so I am always trying to figure out which OS works the most efficiently and is most stable for various applications.

https://www.xda-developers.com/how-run-steam-linux/

My laptop does not meet the minimum requirements for the X-plane 12 Demo so even after trying various ways to fool the installer it still wouldn't install in Windows. But I was able to install the X-plane 12 demo in Ubuntu. It just had an unacceptably low frame rate even at the lowest screen resolutions.

I am going to try installing Waydroid in Ubuntu... right now and see how that compares with BlueStacks and Windows Subsystem For Android. I will try to report back when I get a feel for how it is working.

Why do I tinker around with various operating systems and old computers? It is a hobby and a distraction. To me it is just interesting to see what is possible. The last few days I have been fooling around with some solutions to get old 15 pin joysticks, game pads and flight simulator controllers to work with USB. It has been both frustrating and educational.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[fireman15]

I spent the last two hours getting Waydroid to work in my Ubuntu Studio installation. At this point I am very impressed although I still have not got it to recognize any of my game controllers, the volume is extremely low and it will not play YouTube videos. But all of that represents only the need for more time and stubbornness. I seldom give up on fixing issues such as these.

It is funny that someone complained that the directions for installing the Windows Subsystem for Android sounded like Latin to them. It is child’s play compared to getting Waydroid set up in Ubuntu Studio. I am sure there are some flavors and versions of Linux where this would not have been an ordeal. But with the nearly countless varieties... one often has to do a lot of research and troubleshooting to get hardware and software to play nice together.

I have years of experiences that give me an advantage over most people and help keep me from throwing in the towel too easily. Thankfully the Linux community shares a lot of information in numerous forums that can usually help after some digging.

[Crusher138]

Okay, I’m geekier than 99% of the population. I’ve played with Linux. Heck, I was messing with Unix in 1988.

What I don’t understand is how some just don’t understand than the VAST majority out there will NEVER do what you just did. They will not tinker with setting just to get something to work. I don’t want to do that and I generally enjoy computers.

The Linux community, what is left of it, is composed of a bunch of masochists. Other than the neat sound created by beating your head against a wall...why? Is it REALLY more secure? Kinda sorta. Any real deep geek will tell you that with enough time and tools you can be cracked. It is more of security by obscurity.

Story...I had a Linux box and I bought a Linux friendly (supposedly) graphics card. Back then there was a LONG installation guide that was different for various flavors of Linux that had you typing rather long, obscure, commands in the terminal. After doing all this, it still wouldn’t work. I ended up spending hours digging through forums until I found out about an incompatibility between my motherboard, my video card, and my flavor of Linux. It required a change in installation commands. So basically, after about 6 hours, I was able to get the video card to work. Yay.

Even today, a couple of years later, it isn’t that much better. A “simple” Linux video card installation is:

First, make sure that your system is updated and Linux headers are installed.

To make sure they are, just use the following command in the terminal:

$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic

Installing the Nvidia drivers can be done in three easy steps. First, install the drivers themselves with

$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

in a terminal.

The next step is more of a safety measure as there are cases when the Nvidia installation script doesn’t run this command. This can lead to severe problems when the system reboots, so the solution here is just to run the command again separately:

$ sudo nvidia-xconfig .

Finally, reboot your system using the reboot command to apply your changes.

Then do in terminal:

$ sudo apt-get remove nvidia* && sudo apt-get autoremove

Next, reboot and when you’re back at the login screen press CTRL + Alt + F1 to switch to command console. Login here with your username and password. When you’re at the text console, you’ll have to kill the current graphics session by running $ sudo stop lightdm.

Finally, give permissions to the downloaded driver package and run it with:

cd /Downloads && chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-*-346.35.run && sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-*-361.42.run

From here, just follow the onscreen instructions and then reboot your computer. At next boot, run $ sudo nvidiaxconfig to save your new configuration. Optionally, you can also blacklist the nouveau driver to prevent it from installing itself during a system update or uninstall them completely.

If you want to do this, edit the following config file with:

$ gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf

Once in the file, add the following lines at the end and save the file.

blacklist nouveau

blacklist lbm-nouveauoptions nouveau modeset=0

alias nouveau off

alias lbm-nouveau off

You can also choose to disable the kernel nouveau by running the following commands one by one:

$ echo options nouveau modeset=0 | sudo tee -a /etc/

modprobe.d/nouveau-kms.conf

$ sudo update-initramfs –u

And once you reboot you’re done!

Isn’t that easy!

[fireman15]

I understand exactly what you are saying. I was excited that there was by my measures an easy way to add Windows Subsystem For Android to Windows 10. It took me about 10 minutes and since I had previous experience with the same software package in Windows 11 there were no complications.

Getting similar software working in Ubuntu turned into a fairly advanced exercise. It took me several additional steps not mentioned in the first set of directions to get it working at all. Every one of these steps were done from the command line which many beginners have trouble with.

I also had to register the Android installation with Google as a developer before Google would allow their pieces of the puzzle to cooperate so that I could use the Google Play store. And I am not talking about merely logging in through a browser. I had to have a very long number generated that was associated with my installation. This was a command line operation as well. If I hadn’t found detailed explanations from others going down the same path it never would have been accomplished.

The last few days I have been trying to get a vintage flight simulator yoke and rudder pedals with 15 pin game controller outputs to play nice with USB. I had to do quite a bit of digging for schematics, probing with my multimeter and figuring out how to rewire the devices so that they would work with my adapter, then adding additional resistors and unsoldering and resoldering the connections within the yoke and pedals so that they could meet the specifications. It should have been easy, but it turned into more of a challenge than I had expected.

I understand completely that most people have no interest in these types of challenges, but there are still a few of us, including my grandson who is extremely capable in these types of projects.