Windows Subsystem for Android will no longer be supported from March 5, 2025
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Honestly bullshit. So in 2025 I have to use Bluestacks? Immensely disappointed
Exactly my thoughts. It is a good product and people were using it, why now decide to abandon it? As soon as its deprecated I'm switching to linux+waydroid, no way I'll be sticking to those goofy emulators
That sucks, I can imagine the adoption was rather slow because of Amazon Appstore instead of Google Play? Or maybe it wasn't well advertised. I mean it's more of a developer feature than end user thing.
I haven't used it much myself mostly due to the not really liking Amazon Appstore but the concept is great.
I modified it to use Google play services, but it was a pita to keep updated that way
Reverted to BlueStacks. 😔
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I hate this, I use WSA every day. Time to look for an alternative.
arrrrggghhh the only reason i upgrade to windows 11 is the ability to install android apps....
I wonder if the custom builds using Google Play Store would still work. The way I see is that WSA is still part of Windows, like not locking out the ones that were already installed, it's just that they removed the Amazon Store store.. If that's true you might get a few years until all apps I use are required to have Android 14 or later (since WSA is on v13)
WSA was a core part of my workflow when it comes to development and I used the Google Play Store patched version to get a fully functional Twitter/X Spaces desktop client as the web version did not have all the features. This needs to live on as a developer tool.