A week ago we posted on a hack to install the Google Play Store and Google Play Services in Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) for Windows 11.
That allows access to a much wider range of Android applications, vs the very small 50 app limited selection from the Amazon App Store.
That process was pretty convoluted, however, including requiring the use of a Linux environment on Windows. Now the same team has created a somewhat simplified process using GitHub Actions to customise the WSA.
If you’re on Windows 11 and would really like to run Android applications properly – instead of using the Amazon App Store – this is the way to go.
I’m not a Windows user so I’ve not tried the steps in the article myself. On some of my Linux devices which also support Android, my preference has always been MicroG + F-Droid + Aurora Store. This combination seems to be an even easier option to install on Windows too, since it doesn’t hit the same sign-in issue that the hack has to work around.
https://gist.github.com/pratyakshm/b06c326fc3e54a52b6cbde1044fc35a9
So personally, I’d recommend this MicroG combination as the way to go if you want to run more Android apps on Windows 11.