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JamesMontemagno's avatar
Nov 03, 2021

Goodbye Android Emulators! Windows Subsystem for Android is AWESOME

I love emulators and deploying to devices, but it is awesome that you can deploy directly to WSA in Windows 11 from Visual Studio. Check it out:

 

14 Replies

  • nogginbox's avatar
    nogginbox
    Copper Contributor
    Got a 3 month old Macbook Pro with BootCamp. Great for doing Mac and Windows development, but it fails one point on the Windows 11 Update Check. It was some security chip feature to help Windows Hello. I'm really hoping they change the requirements so I can upgrade and use this.
    • jfversluis's avatar
      jfversluis
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      I don't think there are any plans to bring this to Windows 10. Of course you can still just the emulator like you've always done.
  • egvijayanand's avatar
    egvijayanand
    Copper Contributor
    This is not yet available for users (windows insiders) outside the US region 😞
  • VitaliyArtyukh's avatar
    VitaliyArtyukh
    Copper Contributor
    It's amazing James! I am extremely happy that we have that on Windows 11. But I have one question. Can we have a few "Subsystems" with different settings? Something like a few emulators with different screens sizes.
  • WinterboltGames's avatar
    WinterboltGames
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    It's pretty awesome that both Windows 11 and .NET 6 help unify the development and testing of cross-platform apps now that we have WSL and WSA.
  • Patiently waiting for this to be available outside of the US....

    Awesome video!
    • anakinvs's avatar
      anakinvs
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      jfversluis Im living in Cuba, and yesterday download a appx. 

      MicrosoftCorporationII.WindowsSubsystemForAndroid_1.8.32837.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe

      http://tlu.dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com/filestreamingservice/files/cf7aa3ba-08a5-4060-b83b-9d5f9571198f?P1=1645132348&P2=404&P3=2&P4=TifLZ9sXK9bLVCQnma7VrYHg8vrkq%2BarXgYY6RJuDPT%2B6DLoPBQA%2Bor1%2FK6Rqv9%2Fk8JCXguQ1OC4kmhzDkALKA%3D%3D

      Install it with PowerShell (admin mode) and voila!

  • Yeah, I have enjoyed working with Android emulators with Hyper-V, but there is nothing like just hitting run and it is as if it is local 🙂
  • AnthCool's avatar
    AnthCool
    Copper Contributor
    This will be very nice. So done with the HAXM thing. lol
  • RehanSaeed's avatar
    RehanSaeed
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    How did you manage to embed a Youtube video in a forum post? When I try adding the embed HTML and hit save, I get an error.
  • CalvinAllen's avatar
    CalvinAllen
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    I need this in my life, but I need to build a new PC to get Windows 11 first 😄
    • JamesMontemagno's avatar
      JamesMontemagno
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      My Surface Books were all updated nicely to Windows 11, but my desktop rig is pretty old so excited to build a new blazing fast machine. WSA is a real driver for me for sure.

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