In June, Microsoft promised to bring Android apps to Windows 11, and a few days ago, it finally released the feature to Windows 11 Beta users.
Last night we published a way that will help you have the ability to use Android apps on the “stable” version of Windows 11.
However, Android apps on Windows 11, at least for now, only download through the Amazon Appstore (available through the Microsoft Store), which means users will miss out on a bunch of apps available in the Google Play store.
To address this, a developer named ADeltaX wrote a script that allows users to use Google Play services on the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA). It is currently available on GitHub as WSAGAScript.
To install the script, you must follow the instructions provided by the developer:
Download MSIXBUNDLE (use store rg-adguard to download the msixbundle, Package id: 9P3395VX91NR, Ring: SLOW, size is around 1.2GB)
INSTALL WSL2 (ubuntu / debian, any other distro could work)
INSTALL unzip lzip
DOWNLOAD GAPPS PICO FROM OPENGAPPS (x86_64, 11, PICO)
EXTRACT MSIXBUNDLE, EXTRACT MSIX (YOUR ARCH) TO A FOLDER, DELETE (APPXMETADATA, APPXBLOCKMAP, APPXSIGNATURE, [CONTENT_TYPES])
COPY IMAGES (SYSTEM.IMG, SYSTEM_EXT.IMG, PRODUCT.IMG, VENDOR.IMG) TO #IMAGES
COPY (GAPPS PICO ZIP) TO #GAPPS
EDIT (VARIABLES.sh) AND SET ROOT FOLDER
EXECUTE:
extract_gapps_pico.sh
extend_and_mount_images.sh
apply.sh
unmount_images.sh
COPY IMAGES FROM (#IMAGES FOLDER) TO YOUR EXTRACTED MSIX FOLDER
OPEN POWERSHELL (NOT CORE) AS ADMIN, EXECUTE (Add-AppxPackage -Register PATH_TO_EXTRACTED_MSIX \ AppxManifest.xml)
RUN WSA WITH GAPPS, ENJOY
The developer states that this is a project in progress, so errors should be expected. The readme file will be updated with simpler instructions and more details.
For those of you interested, WSAGAScript is available on GitHub , but you should proceed at your own risk.
George is still wondering what he is doing here….
