I work a lot with Android, but didn't really have much reason to use it when I can just run an emulator. It's sad to see Microsoft killing it so early.
Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)
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Re: Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)
#22So, this is the second time a "run your Android apps on Windows" initiative fizzles out: before WSA (which was Amazon-centric), there was a late-2020 "Your Phone" feature that (briefly) allowed Samsung apps on Windows desktops. Not sure if this means anything other than "phone apps run best on, well, a phone", especially since I can't think of anything from my phone that I would truly like on my desktop, other than i…
If I ran Windows on my Legion Go, I'd probably be looking into WSA.
Windows is famously crappy on touchscreens. It would be really nice to have something like ChromeOS or Android be the UI for a gaming handheld.
Re: Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)
#23This is kind of weird since much of the tech is shared with WSL. It also makes me question the future of WSL, though that would be insane to deprecate given it has worked miracles for rehabilitating Microsoft‘s image and Windows’ usability.
WSL is an important developer tool, with a lot of (paying corporate) users. WSA was a limited toy.
Re: Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)
#24So, this is the second time a "run your Android apps on Windows" initiative fizzles out: before WSA (which was Amazon-centric), there was a late-2020 "Your Phone" feature that (briefly) allowed Samsung apps on Windows desktops. Not sure if this means anything other than "phone apps run best on, well, a phone", especially since I can't think of anything from my phone that I would truly like on my desktop, other than i…
I remember sometime in the last decade Google had an extension to run Android apps in Chrome. I tested it with a comics app, which I wanted for the bigger screen, and it worked fine. When I tried to search for the extension years later I couldn't find it.
Re: Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)
#25I found WSA kind of handy to run Pocket Casts on old Microsoft Surface Tablet. Had to jump through some hoops to install Google Play first. What's the best alternative? Bluestacks seems very shady. Chrome OS Flex in a VM? (Scratch that. It looks like Chrome OS Flex doesn't allow Android apps) P.S. Do we make "jokes" about Microsoft killing things off like we do with Google?
What's wrong with the pocket casts webapp?
Re: Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)
#26> Windows Subsystem for Android™ enables your Windows 11 device to run Android applications that are available in the Amazon Appstore. This seems so niche it is not a huge surprise they are ending support. Though at the same time, the initial article is from August of last year so it had a very short life.
WSA was around a lot longer than that, at least in beta. But I never saw any excitement about it at all.
Re: Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)
#27I found WSA kind of handy to run Pocket Casts on old Microsoft Surface Tablet. Had to jump through some hoops to install Google Play first. What's the best alternative? Bluestacks seems very shady. Chrome OS Flex in a VM? (Scratch that. It looks like Chrome OS Flex doesn't allow Android apps) P.S. Do we make "jokes" about Microsoft killing things off like we do with Google?
We are more cynical with Microsoft, and joke about embrace extend extinguish.
Re: Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)
#28So, this is the second time a "run your Android apps on Windows" initiative fizzles out: before WSA (which was Amazon-centric), there was a late-2020 "Your Phone" feature that (briefly) allowed Samsung apps on Windows desktops. Not sure if this means anything other than "phone apps run best on, well, a phone", especially since I can't think of anything from my phone that I would truly like on my desktop, other than i…
There are plenty of applications I would like to run in a completely sandboxed environment separate from the blast radius of my phone. Anything by Facebook would be a given. Chat applications which still do not have a serviceable web interface. Whatever.
Re: Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)
#29So, this is the second time a "run your Android apps on Windows" initiative fizzles out: before WSA (which was Amazon-centric), there was a late-2020 "Your Phone" feature that (briefly) allowed Samsung apps on Windows desktops. Not sure if this means anything other than "phone apps run best on, well, a phone", especially since I can't think of anything from my phone that I would truly like on my desktop, other than i…
I remember sometime in the last decade Google had an extension to run Android apps in Chrome. I tested it with a comics app, which I wanted for the bigger screen, and it worked fine. When I tried to search for the extension years later I couldn't find it.
I remember ARChon Runtime: https://archon-runtime.github.io/
Re: Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)
#30I found WSA kind of handy to run Pocket Casts on old Microsoft Surface Tablet. Had to jump through some hoops to install Google Play first. What's the best alternative? Bluestacks seems very shady. Chrome OS Flex in a VM? (Scratch that. It looks like Chrome OS Flex doesn't allow Android apps) P.S. Do we make "jokes" about Microsoft killing things off like we do with Google?
I found the best alternative to be the Pocket Casts web player. It's not as good as the mobile app, but I find it serviceable.