It works, I tried it on my main gaming rig. You can open the Windows Subsystem for Android settings and turn on 'developer mode' which will allow you to sideload APKs using ADB. I didn't feel like messing with my Amazon account as every time you change the region, it disbands your Amazon Household which is really annoying. Set up and use of the Amazon AppStore for Windows requires a US-based Amazon account (for now). (You can change it back once it's installed.) It'll only show up in the Microsoft Store to be installed if you have your 'Country or region' set to United States. Virtualization needs to be enabled in the UEFI and virtualization features need to be enabled in the OS. (You can find a way to sideload the Subsystem to unsupported builds if you look on Reddit, YMMV.) Newer builds from the Dev ring won't see the option to install WSA in the store.

It works on Windows 11 Home or Pro, must be on major version 22000.xxx. After a bit of a false start in 2015 with the Android Subsystem in Windows 10 Mobile being unceremoniously scrapped prior to launch, an all-new version is publicly available. Sort of an Android-y subject, the Windows Subsystem for Android launched to Windows 11 Insiders in the beta ring today. It feels to me like Google knew they needed a new OS to sell a new device, and so put a new skin on Android 11 instead of making a lot of useful changes to the OS to really push it forward. Does Google keep refining in their monthly patches, or is this 'good enough' until Android 13 next year? There are still things that need to be tweaked, changed and refined in my opinion and I am wondering how long that takes. Material You is cool concept but I don't think it's going to work well if only Google plays ball (I can't see Facebook and Microsoft for example wanting to allow their apps to have adaptive colour, they want their brand colours) and/or it's only on Pixel devices.Īndroid 12 feels like a new UI for Android 11.

I remember the days when every OEM had a very different Android skin and every device felt very different. It was nice to go from device to device and know what to expect. Yeah once Material Design was established Google kept refining it and tweaking but it always felt the same. To add to the weirdness, iOS to me has felt like each major version has made bigger UX jumps. Honestly, my Galaxy S10e feels like it has been virtually unchanged moving from Android 9 to 11 over the years.

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