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Microsoft Ending Support For Windows Subsystem For Android (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 9 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] wolfruff@pawb.social 42 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Lmao just another thing Linux does better anyway.

[–] AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 30 points 9 months ago (4 children)

What's the easiest way to run Android apps on Linux?

[–] wolfruff@pawb.social 37 points 9 months ago

Waydroid

[–] julianh@lemm.ee 26 points 9 months ago

Waydroid

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Waydroid or run Bliss OS in a VM.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

BlissOS Zenith didnt boot for me poorly, and other versions are slightly outdated. But I will try another one.

Waydroidnruns a rootful LXD container I think, which is not isolated at all. An OCI image ran through Podman would be way better.

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Novaspirit Tech did a decent video on setup. He is using Proxmox but there should be the same settings in KVM.

https://youtu.be/LEyElt_yP50?si=KunfaO39wYYEgryL

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[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I've been using BlueStacks. How do those compare to BlueStacks?

I'm guessing at the very least they have less ads than blue stacks, lol.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Bluestacks is full of Ads and junk. But it has actual additions to make it work with a keyboard. Waydroid wasnt able to register multi-input for me, which makes basically any game unplayable.

But the android app smart autoclicker is the perfect replacement for bluestacks things.

[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 1 points 9 months ago

Thank you! That's a helpful comparison.

[–] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Think there's also an official emulator from android studios but I could be wrong

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 11 points 9 months ago

Yes. Built into Android Studio. Has existed for at least five years. However I only ever used it with the apps I was developing and never even considered using it as a means to launch outside apps. That probably would have been painful.

[–] DODOKING38@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So could theoretically install waydroid in WSL?

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago

someone did that before microsoft had even released WSA but I don't see anything about people doing it recently. probably someone is working on it right now though, given this news.