When will W11 Support Androids Apps?

Steve C · Jun 28, 2022

When will W11 support Android apps since this might encourage me to upgrade from W10?

SlicEnDicE · Jun 28, 2022

Probably this Fall or Spring 2023. MS is currently planning on adding more markets to the Amazon App Store this Fall. So far only US market has been supported.

With some fiddling though, you can get WSA running in any market and even have full Google Play support. I don't recommend this approach though as you need to know exactly what you're doing, or you'll brick your Android instance.

cereberus · Jun 28, 2022

SlicEnDicE said:
Probably this Fall or Spring 2023. MS is currently planning on adding more markets to the Amazon App Store this Fall. So far only US market has been supported.

With some fiddling though, you can get WSA running in any market and even have full Google Play support. I don't recommend this approach though as you need to know exactly what you're doing, or you'll brick your Android instance.

It is now allegedly available to rest of world, but Amazon has not caught up.

SlicEnDicE · Jun 28, 2022

cereberus said:
It is now allegedly available to rest of world, but Amazon has not caught up.

Exactly...it is not yet avalaible everywhere

cereberus · Jun 28, 2022

SlicEnDicE said:
Exactly...it is not yet avalaible everywhere

For those brave souls who want to experiment with google playstore

How to Install Google Play Store on Windows 11 WSA?

Recently, Microsoft made it possible for Windows Insider Preview users to install Windows Subsystem for Android on their computers. Just like its brother,

appuals.com

Make sure you have an image backup first though!

jimbo45 · Jun 28, 2022

Hi there

@cereberus and others interested :

If you DO get it working there's a brilliant FREE radio app which gives access to zillions of free Internet radio stations called RadioGarden.

Try it first on an Android phone and beam the sound to Windows or a decent set of speakers.

Then for Windows :

Radio Garden Live for PC - Free Download: Windows 7,8,10 Edition - Free Download

How to download and install Radio Garden Live on your PC and Mac. To install Radio Garden Live on your Windows PC or Mac computer, you will need to download and install the WINDOWS PC APP for free from this post ... This method of using on PC works for Windows 7/8 / 8.1 / 10 / 11 and all Mac OS.

pcmac.download

It shows also how to install the native .apk on Windows.

(Tunein used to be good for Internet radio on Windows / Android etc but it's hobbled so much by "rights restrictions" that it's worse than useless in some areas unless you use a vpn).

Cheers
jimbo

SlicEnDicE · Jun 28, 2022

Also keep in mind, any WSA image update coming from MS App Store will overwrite any modifications you did to your WSA instance --> You have to reapply all the Google Play store related stuff every time WSA image is updated by MS.