Make Windows 11’s Android support useful by adding Google Play apps

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One of the main features of Windows 11 that Microsoft promoted prior to launch is Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA), for short, support for Android apps. It’s only been a few days since the feature was made available, but there are numerous limitations. In addition to being only available to Windows Insiders participating in the US Beta Channel, users are forced to get their apps from the Amazon App Store.

In the real world, of course, practically no one uses the Amazon App Store; Google Play is where the action is (and a full share of apps). Now, someone has managed to hack something together that makes it possible to access Google Play and install Android apps from this store in Windows 11. You’ll need access to Ubuntu or another Linux distribution, among other things.

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There is no denying that this is not something everyone will want to do. In fact, you should be pretty excited about using the Play Store on Amazon’s App Store as there are various hoops to overcome.

A developer named ADeltaX has released a tool called WSAGAScript which is described as “Script to install Google Apps in a WSA image. Plus optional ADB root”.

If this sounds interesting and you are willing to invest some time and effort, ADeltaX has created an introductory video tutorial to help you get started:

All the details and a series of constantly updated written instructions are available on GitHub.

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