Microsoft Ending Support For Windows Subsystem For Android
Microsoft Ending Support For Windows Subsystem For Android
- Microsoft ending support for Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)
- WSA designed to run Android apps from Amazon Appstore on Windows 11
- Support for WSA will end on March 5, 2025; no impact on Windows Subsystem for Linux.
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If they hadn't locked into amazon appstore, I feel like they could have made it work.
Either cough up money for Playstore or better yet just make windows store compatible with android and easier to use.
TIL there's an Amazon app store.
Lol. Yeah, they've got quite the wall around their garden. It's hell getting the play store running on their hardware.
I recently discovered Aurora, which allowed me to easily install Firefox on my Fire HD. Lots of other stuff too (better launcher, for instance) but I found it because the web just sucks without Ublock
Have you ever tried using aurora instead of the play store for devices that don't natively have it?
I have. Using it on a bloss FOSS build. I must say... I kinda hate it. None of the apps work.
Nope. Never had enough trust. I'd sooner use a website and use virustotal to scan. At least you know what you are getting that way.
I may experiment with it on an expendable device, so thank you all the same.
I've since tried it on a Bliss FOSS image. Still not able to get apps working.
It works very well, I use it all the time on GrapheneOS
I mean, Waydroid works fine with Aurorastore and even Playstore. Sure that may break, but all that capitalist "we buy licenses" BS of course costs money
The Amazon app store is the most mature app store outside of Google Play. It's not just as simple as converting the Windows store to Android because of course they would need to develop an Android version of every app in the windows store.
I meant just allowing people to publish APKs to the windows store, not converting every app.
Although WSA let you sideload apps anyway so I'm thinking maybe Microsoft just didn't see any big profit potential which is why they're shutting down.