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.
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!
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.
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 :|
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