in the tests of Windows 11 (DEV and Beta) Added The first issue of the layer wsa (Windows Subsystem for Android), which provides the launch of mobile applications created for the Android platform. The layer is implemented by analogy with the WSL2 subsystem (Windows Subsystem for Linux), which ensures the launch of the executable Linux files in Windows. The environment uses a full -fledged Linux nucleus, which is performed in Windows using a virtual machine.
for launch is available more than 50 thousand Android applications from the catalog amazon appStore – installation of WSA is installed from the Microsoft Store directory Amazon AppStore , which in turn is used to install Android programs. For users, working with Android applications is not much different from the launch of ordinary Windows programs.
Subsystem So far is presented as experimental and supports only part of the planned opportunities. For example, in the current form, Android, USB widgets, direct access to Bluetooth, file transfer, create backups, hardware DRM, the “picture in the picture” and the placement of shortcuts are not supported. Support for sound and video codecs, cameras, CTS/VTS, Ethernet, Gamepad, GPS, microphone, work with several monitors, printing, program DRM (Widevine L3), WebView and Wi-Fi. For entering and navigation, a keyboard and a mouse are used. An arbitrary change in the windows of Android programs and a change in landscape/portrait orientation.