cross-posted from !android@lemdro.id
Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android™️ (WSA). As a result, the Amazon Appstore on Windows and all applications and games dependent on WSA will no longer be supported beginning March 5, 2025. Until then, technical support will remain available to customers.
Customers that have installed the Amazon Appstore or Android apps prior to March 5, 2024, will continue to have access to those apps through the deprecation date of March 5, 2025. Please reach out to our support team for further questions at support.microsoft.com. We are grateful for the support of our developer community and remain committed to listening to feedback as we evolve experiences.
Another half baked product that was never marketed or really explained to users is deprecated. Standard Microsoft behavior.
I’m guessing a lack of vision resulted in an improper implementation with too many issues they don’t want to spend on fixing
Linux(waydroid): 1 Windows: 0
Glad Weston allows it to run in X11 because every attempt to switch to wayland fulltime has been painful.
Obviously, people said that if you had a newer card it was ok. I say nay nay.
That’s a shame. I really liked it for text-to-speech since the TTS apps for Android are a lot better (and cheap/free) compared to Windows offerings. I use it to grade student essays since I can speed read with TTS+eyes faster and more accurately than I can with just my eyes.
That said, I think there are other ways to get Android apps working in Windows, aren’t there? I might need to look into the options, or see if the TTS options on Windows have improved.
WSA was the “killer feature” that made me upgrade from Windows 10. (Although Win+Shift+T for screen capture OCR is huge for me, too…)
I don’t know if it’s still a thing, or how well it would work for your usages, but I used to use an Android emulator application on Windows called BlueStacks. Might be something to look into. I hope you find something that works well for you!
Meaning even the execution of apks is now deprecated or just the amazon store? :|
The whole subsystem is being removed, so the Android container to run apks is going with it. Sad to see it go, although my usage went down quite a bit after moving away from 3rd party Reddit apps.
