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

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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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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[–] yamanii 24 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Was it ever actually supported? I was waiting for it to be ready to switch to Windows 11 since android emulators are all extremely heavy, I just remember it being on a preview version.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It worked well. But only with Amazon AppStore apps, so nothing useful

[–] Fumbles 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is what gets me. If they actually just let people install Android apps. It might have worked.

[–] atocci 11 points 8 months ago

There was also nothing stopping you from sideloading apps. I used it with Auroa Store.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

What about waydroid? is it heavy as well? I think vanilla OS Beta even have fdroid built-in to install android app.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In my experience, Waydroid kinda sucked. It used more resources than an Android Emulator on Windows did with less performance in games. Of course, they're different technologies (containerized vs VM) but the experience was vastly different. It lacks so many QoL features. You can't dynamically change resolution. Can't bind keys by default (need to install something for it) etc Wayland requirement was also a trouble for me (It didn't work quite well and I kept running into issues) Intel > AMD > Nvidia for Waydroid

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think if you are using hardware that has poor supports for wayland (e.g. nvidia), then poor performance of waydroid is kind of expected.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah software rendering sucks a lot for Nvidia users. I'm on AMD.

[–] yamanii 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I don't know, I'm on Windows 10, was thinking of bluestacks and LDplayer that I use to play some gachas on PC.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Oh that makes sense. I thought you were on Linux, and wondering why you want to switch to windows when waydroid is available.

I heard they now have near zero performance penalty and integrate really well with the desktop. If you really want android apps, you can probably try it out on a old computer or vm.