Update to Windows Subsystem for Android™ on Windows 11 (July 2023) | Windows Insider Blog

What’s New

  • Camera compatibility improvements.
  • Fullscreen mode with F11 now displays hover taskbar to improve mouse and touch experience.
  • Local networking (under Advanced settings – Experimental features) now replacing “Advanced networking”. Android apps can connect to devices on the same network, on all versions of Windows 11, respect Windows firewall rules, and work with VPNs.
  • Share user folders (under Advanced settings – Experimental features) now gives users the option to change their default shared folder.
  • The subsystem will now prompt if an app is trying to use a permission that the subsystem does not have.
  • The subsystem has switched from EROFS to EXT4 for read-only disks.
  • Fix for OneDrive folders not showing up in Android apps.
  • Support for drag and drop for more file types.
  • Improvements to picture-in-picture (new UI buttons when in PIP).
  • Partially running mode now enabled by default for devices with at least 16 GB of memory.
  • Stability fixes for Arm devices.
  • Linux kernel updated to 5.15.104.
  • Android 13 security updates.
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I’m running Windows 11 without TPM, so this is a bit of a nonstarter, but for people who like the idea, I’m using LDPlayer, it’s pretty great.

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AFAIK if you’ve already installed Windows 11, you should be able to run Windows Subsystem for Android?

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Huh! They must’ve changed it. I recall that if you installed without TPM or SecureBoot, they’d cut off access to those features.

You can install windows 11 without those features in a number of ways, I used rufus to create a boot USB that doesn’t check.

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It’s worth a try! I’d be curious to hear if it works for you.

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What android apps are worth running? Is there anything? I don’t game.

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have they ever upgraded the audio stack to allow 24bit?

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just run linux with waydroid lmao, why run a proprietary stack that problary logs everything you do and sends it back to microsoft employees.

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Covenience. Most people really don’t care about that as long as they can get whatever Android app they have on their computer. I say this as a Waydroid user.

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True enough. I’ve been a Windows user when it was convenient, but since about 1.5 year ago, it stopped being convenient, so I switched to Linux full time.

Majority don’t consider privacy when thinking about computers, but some of us that do, it’s still not black and white, we’re willing to put up with shit as long as it is convenient.

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