Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android
Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android
Windows Subsystem for Android™️ enables your Windows 11 device to run Android applications that are available in the Amazon Appstore. Learn more about set up, device requirements, installing and uninstalling, input compatibility, testing and debugging, and using the Amazon Appstore.
cross-posted from !android@lemdro.id
Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android™️ (WSA). As a result, the Amazon Appstore on Windows and all applications and games dependent on WSA will no longer be supported beginning March 5, 2025. Until then, technical support will remain available to customers.
Customers that have installed the Amazon Appstore or Android apps prior to March 5, 2024, will continue to have access to those apps through the deprecation date of March 5, 2025. Please reach out to our support team for further questions at support.microsoft.com. We are grateful for the support of our developer community and remain committed to listening to feedback as we evolve experiences.
Another half baked product that was never marketed or really explained to users is deprecated. Standard Microsoft behavior.
Didn't even know it existed
Windows phone is calling you
Very cool as a tech demo. Terrible as a product.
not to mention it was only available in US... but then again the rest of the world doesn't exist anyway, right ?
I'm guessing a lack of vision resulted in an improper implementation with too many issues they don't want to spend on fixing
That's a shame. I really liked it for text-to-speech since the TTS apps for Android are a lot better (and cheap/free) compared to Windows offerings. I use it to grade student essays since I can speed read with TTS+eyes faster and more accurately than I can with just my eyes.
That said, I think there are other ways to get Android apps working in Windows, aren't there? I might need to look into the options, or see if the TTS options on Windows have improved.
WSA was the "killer feature" that made me upgrade from Windows 10. (Although Win+Shift+T for screen capture OCR is huge for me, too..)
I don't know if it's still a thing, or how well it would work for your usages, but I used to use an Android emulator application on Windows called BlueStacks. Might be something to look into. I hope you find something that works well for you!
I'll be so honest, the best android emulator is just downloading the Android SDK. You can pull off anyyyyy set up you want.
Bluestacks works but it's so uuuughhhhHHhH.
Meaning even the execution of apks is now deprecated or just the amazon store? :|
The whole subsystem is being removed, so the Android container to run apks is going with it. Sad to see it go, although my usage went down quite a bit after moving away from 3rd party Reddit apps.
Oh wow fuck off MS :|
Never used it except for the only time I ran an Android app on my windows pc was for Clash of Clans for which Google has a native integration for. Might have been useful later on :|
Wow, so the one thing I was actually interested in 11 for is gone, right after they killed VR.
Glad I didn't update, dismayed at the direction.
This sucks 😔 It was a great idea, but I admit there was really no clean way to execute it. That being said, I'd have loved it if MS managed one of their rare design wins and made it really seamless.
Aw man I really liked it as a concept
I just had this working on side loading apps outside the Amazon Appstore and one major reason why I still have a Windows 11. Oh well, thanks Microsoft for helping decide to migrate my last pc to Linux.
This is the first I'm hearing of this thing's existence
That's a shame... It was nice to have even if I didn't use it day to day.