This article is about getting Windows 11’s highly touted Android integration to actually be semi-useful. The crippled Amazon Appstore that is included with the standard Windows Subsystem for Android™️ is a joke if anyone here has actually tried to use it.
The article is a step by step how to that likely will not give you the result that you are hoping for, but if you have followed through all the steps and it is not working... you can download a patched version that actually works and run the “Run.bat” file in the first directory of the unzipped patched version, found here:
https://github.com/YT-Advanced/WSA-Script/releases/tag/v2023-08-03
I downloaded and used the “WSA_2306.40000.4.0_x64_Release-Nightly-NoGApps-as-Pixel-5-RemovedAmazon.7z” file
With this one your Windows 11 environment thinks that it is a Pixel-5 cell phone. My guess is that this link probably will not work for very long. But it got me up and running after farting around with this for quite a while with little success because of various bugs in the WSAGAScript. The article was included because it lists all of the hoops you have to jump to get it to work. But who knows the WSAGAScript might be working right again very shortly.
After it all started working properly, I went to the Google Playstore in the newly created unhobbled version of the Android operating system in Windows 11 and downloaded the full version of the Amazon Appstore and added some apps that I owned there and also some of my favorite apps from the Google Playstore.
There actually are some semi-legitimate reasons for doing this. If you have gotten a little bored tinkering with various forms of Linux this is an interesting diversion, and strangely enough this involves adding a Linux command line system to Windows 11 as well. For an example of why a normal non-geek might enjoy this... The book readers in Linux and Windows are typically almost embarrassingly bad. I have some other Android apps that I like to use as well. You can also try out various apps that you are not sure you want to risk screwing your phone up with... into this environment to see how you like them.
I have multiple operating systems set up to boot on my laptop and multiple virtual machines installed, but this is a pretty good new toy to fool around with. I will tell you that that at this point an Android emulator such as BlueStacks is a far easier solution, but if you want a bit of a challenge you might just want to check this out.
it is really annoying that google has to be involved at all.
I unfortunately was forced to get an android phone, but I do not have and never will have any kind of google account.
It was annoying to de-google it and I have to side load any app that I want to use.
Aurora Store kind of works, and you should be able to use it on the windows android subsys too
My question is why you would want to do this other than to show it’s possible
I can’t figure out from the article if this is to run Android apps on Windows or Windows apps on Android.
I use Bluestacks to run Android apps on Windows.
https://www.bluestacks.com/bluestacks-5.html
I’m all for tinkering but as we know, Windows is not “ours”, it’s Microsoft’s and they allow us to use it under their terms. Google-owned Android is just pure shite. If you don’t believe me, feel free to make an offer on the 6” tall pile of useless Android tablets I’ve bought over the years that ultimately self-destruct and can’t be restored, despite many hours of dinking around in with Android Studio, apk-bridge and all the rest of their tools. You can’t restore a turd.