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Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by RunSet »

m3h wrote: post #17

It doesn't seem to be available in my region yet. The openness of PC means that a second app store can exist and be successful on the Windows platform. If Google pulls this off, we might see a credible, large store of casual games on Windows for the first time. Right now, mobile shines for casual games and sees the bulk of investment for casual games. It would be a great boon for many casual gamers to be able to swit…

The last time I bothered trying to make an Android app the SDK's emulator would not run on AMD CPUs and it seemed to have been deliberately crippled. Intel being the most obvious benefactor there.

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by norman784 »

fendy3002 wrote: post #6

Are there any valid android games that's also good to play on android and on PC? I think of vampire survivor but it also has PC version.

For me is the ability just to play mobile games in my PC, because I'm most of the time using it and not so much my phone, also because most of the games are casual you can easily multitask while playing, that's not easy to do it on mobile.

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by mulletbum »

hienyimba wrote: post #20

You can already do this on PC using the Windows Subsystem for Android. The major issue surrounding WSA was that it was too technical to setup for most PC users so we built an app for our non-technical users to solve this. Right now, Google building a standalone app for only Android games (people use Android apps fairly on par with games on PC) and then insisting on a slow rollout will most likely make the product go…

Are you saying that because Google wont be invested in this and trying to figure out how to make money off it, that will be what kills it in the end? Seems right.

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by scarface_74 »

m3h wrote: post #17

It doesn't seem to be available in my region yet. The openness of PC means that a second app store can exist and be successful on the Windows platform. If Google pulls this off, we might see a credible, large store of casual games on Windows for the first time. Right now, mobile shines for casual games and sees the bulk of investment for casual games. It would be a great boon for many casual gamers to be able to swit…

I wouldn’t say “shine”. Mobile games are mostly shitty ad ridden apps with in app purchases of coins and loot boxes targeting “whales”.

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by shlubbert »

MikusR wrote: post #13
flashback2199 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Windows Subsystem for X naming convention is so annoying. It's an Android Subsystem for Windows, but leave it to Microsoft to make sure their product name comes first.

It's a Windows Subsystem for running Android apps.

We know, but " for " usually implies that runs on , not the other way around.

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by eugenekolo »

flashback2199 wrote: post #11
hfkwer wrote: post #5

Presumably to counter this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/android/wsa/

The Windows Subsystem for X naming convention is so annoying. It's an Android Subsystem for Windows, but leave it to Microsoft to make sure their product name comes first.

[BROUGHT TO YOU BY WINDOWS] Subsystem for X.

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by notum »

hienyimba wrote: post #20

You can already do this on PC using the Windows Subsystem for Android. The major issue surrounding WSA was that it was too technical to setup for most PC users so we built an app for our non-technical users to solve this. Right now, Google building a standalone app for only Android games (people use Android apps fairly on par with games on PC) and then insisting on a slow rollout will most likely make the product go…

I concur. May also suggest Google to work on their "retied projects" archives directly, rather than repeat this cycle of wasted energy.

Waiting for Voice to die. I thought it would immediately follow gTalk.

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by wffurr »

RunSet wrote: post #21
m3h wrote: post #17

It doesn't seem to be available in my region yet. The openness of PC means that a second app store can exist and be successful on the Windows platform. If Google pulls this off, we might see a credible, large store of casual games on Windows for the first time. Right now, mobile shines for casual games and sees the bulk of investment for casual games. It would be a great boon for many casual gamers to be able to swit…

The last time I bothered trying to make an Android app the SDK's emulator would not run on AMD CPUs and it seemed to have been deliberately crippled. Intel being the most obvious benefactor there.

>> Intel being the most obvious benefactor there.

No need to assume malice when incompetence is sufficient. At a guess, the SDK engineers likely had Intel workstations and didn’t test on other systems. In the course of doing low level optimizations, they may have written some non-portable code.

Only recently did Google start offering an AMD-based workstation, which is highly coveted because it’s incredibly fast for building Android or ChromeOS. Maybe this has been fixed since then from bug reports.

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by eugenekolo »

fendy3002 wrote: post #6

Are there any valid android games that's also good to play on android and on PC? I think of vampire survivor but it also has PC version.

I think it could be good for games you have a continuous account in, but sometimes want to play on PC, and sometimes on your phone.

The better games have some account login and online synchronization... but also requires sometimes buying two copies.

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