• 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.
      • Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
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        8 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.

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        8 months ago

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

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          8 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.

        • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
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          8 months ago

          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.

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            8 months ago

            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.

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          8 months ago

          BlissOS Zenith didnt boot for me poorly, and other versions are slightly outdated.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.