Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android

Caffeinated_Capybara, 2 months ago

That’s a shame… It was nice to have even if I didn’t use it day to day.

ako946659663, 2 months ago

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.

averyminya, 2 months ago

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.

flashgnash, 2 months ago

This is the first I’m hearing of this thing’s existence

blindsight, 2 months ago

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…)

Drewelite, 2 months ago

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.

deFrisselle, 2 months ago

I’m guessing a lack of vision resulted in an improper implementation with too many issues they don’t want to spend on fixing

peter, 2 months ago

Aw man I really liked it as a concept

WeLoveCastingSpellz, 2 months ago

Linux(waydroid): 1 Windows: 0

PolarisFx, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Glad Weston allows it to run in X11 because every attempt to switch to wayland fulltime has been painful.

flashgnash, 2 months ago

Nvidia?

PolarisFx, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Obviously, people said that if you had a newer card it was ok. I say nay nay.

Appoxo, 2 months ago

Meaning even the execution of apks is now deprecated or just the amazon store? :|

HovringSquidworld97A, 2 months ago

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.

Appoxo, 2 months ago

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 :|

scrubbles, 2 months ago

Another half baked product that was never marketed or really explained to users is deprecated. Standard Microsoft behavior.

BCsven, 2 months ago

Windows phone is calling you

storcholus, 2 months ago

Didn’t even know it existed

troyunrau, 2 months ago

Very cool as a tech demo. Terrible as a product.