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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)

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WSA is apparently also a godsend for android app developers on windows.

Eh, you can still use the SDK emulator, which is an x86_64 VM, and it has OK performance on reasonable hardware.

The argument I read from upset developers was that the WSA was so much better than other methods.

Re: Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)

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I feel like this was released just yesterday and now they are ending the support. Why?

Really good q I'm shocked too. Riffing: Without Play Store it's not viable/interesting. Also, it's so. much. work. keeping up with Android releases, even inside Google. Wear and ChromeOS are always a version or two behind, and vast majority of the time, it is two versions. If Google internally wasn't helpful enough to each other, I can't imagine they played nice with Microsoft on this. The broad business war means th…

What’s n.b.?

Re: Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)

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I 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 the best alternative? Waydroid runs Android apps on Linux and some people claim to have gotten it to work on WSL. - Waydroid: https://waydro.id Reddit threads: - https://www.reddit.com/r/bashonubuntuonwindows/comments/eofn... - https://www.reddit.com/r/waydroid/comments/10y813d/is_it_pos... - https://www.reddit.com/r/waydroid/comments/14e6t3g/does_maki...

Does Waydroid have problem running arm apks on x86 architecture?

Re: Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)

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> What's the best alternative? Waydroid runs Android apps on Linux and some people claim to have gotten it to work on WSL. - Waydroid: https://waydro.id Reddit threads: - https://www.reddit.com/r/bashonubuntuonwindows/comments/eofn... - https://www.reddit.com/r/waydroid/comments/10y813d/is_it_pos... - https://www.reddit.com/r/waydroid/comments/14e6t3g/does_maki...

Does Waydroid have problem running arm apks on x86 architecture?

libhoudini and libndk are libraries that translate ARM instructions to x86. There's an installation script for Waydroid:

https://github.com/casualsnek/waydroid_script

Re: Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)

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It's not possible before Amazon can build their own browser that runs on their own OS. (Or, if they can somehow get the Android/Linux version of Chrome run on the OS.) As simple as that.

So, silk? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/silk/latest/developerguide/what-...

That's just a chromium skin that runs on Android.

Re: Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)

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post #115

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It's not possible before Amazon can build their own browser that runs on their own OS. (Or, if they can somehow get the Android/Linux version of Chrome run on the OS.) As simple as that.

As I mentioned elsewhere, they have that: https://9to5google.com/2023/11/14/amazon-android-echo-show-r...

Does it have a full-features browser that end user can use to navigate arbitrary websites?
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