Microsoft has begun testing the Android subsystem for Windows 11 and a predetermined number of clients would now be able to download it from the Amazon AppStore.
The accessibility of Android applications on Windows 11 would be emphatically subject to the things distributed in the Amazon Appstore, however you can sideload APKs or even run the Play Store.
Designer ADeltaX has now figured out how to open Google Play Store support by making changes to Windows Subsystem for Android. The Play Store hack, which isn’t novice agreeable, empowers support for both Google Play administrations and the Google Play store with sign-in help.
This strategy could make ready for introducing any Android application on Windows 11 and Google Play administrations based applications will likewise work. The content is facilitated on Github, yet it’s presently not novice well disposed and it’s smarter to avoid the hack except if you know precisely what you wanted to do.
Running Play Store on Windows 11
To get started, you would need to download Windows Subsystem for Android from here, install Windows Subsystem for Linux (2), and download Ubuntu from the Microsoft Store.
Finally, run the following commands in Ubuntu terminal:
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt install unzip lzip
Head to OpenGApps and create a package with the following configuration:
- Platform: x86_64.
- OS: Android: 11.
- Variant: Pico on OpenGApps
Download 7Zip and extract the .msixbundle of Windows Subsystem for Android and locate the msixbundle compatible with your architecture/device language. Extract the second msixbundle to another folder and delete these files appxblockmap, appxsignature, content_types, and appxmetadata.
In the Ubuntu terminal, run the following command
git clone https://github.com/ADeltaX/WSAGAScript cd WSAGAScript/\#IMAGES mv /mnt/path-to-extracted-msix/*.img . cd ../\#GAPPS cp /mnt/path-to-downloaded-gapps/*.zip .
The above command will download the necessary files to run the WSAGA script. In the command, WSL would follow the same path as Windows after /mnt/, but make sure the drive letter is correct. For example, /mnt/c/users would be the c:\users folder.
After running the above commands, run executable permission for the scripts
cd.. sudo chmod +x extract_gapps_pico.sh sudo chmod +x extend_and_mount_images.sh sudo chmod +x apply.sh sudo chmod +x unmount_images.sh
Now change the root directory in VARIABLES.sh using the command “pwd” and note down the output. Run the following command where VARIABLES would be the output of the previous command (pwd):
nano VARIABLES.sh
And finally, run the following commands:
sudo ./extract_gapps_pico.sh sudo ./extend_and_mount_images.sh sudo ./apply.sh sudo ./unmount_images.sh
To copy the modified WSA image, run the following command:
cd \#IMAGES cp *.img /mnt/path-to-extracted-msix/
If you followed the above steps correctly, you should be able to register the modified image. To do register, enable developer mode in WSA and run Add-AppxPackage -Register path-to-extracted-msix\AppxManifest.xml
Windows Subsystem for Android will now install the required apps and files for Play Store.
To signin with your Google account, copy the kernel file from Github and replace the kernel file inside the tools folder of the extracted msix (WSA should not be running in the background).
Once done, enter adb shell and run the following command
su setenforce 0
Although the instructions are available, it’s not for beginners and it’s better to wait for a third-party tool to automate the entire process.
Microsoft is officially working with Amazon to improve Android apps support on Windows 11, but there’s no ETA as to when Amazon could bring more apps to the desktop OS.
