Most users are not interested in this, but if the process is easy enough to replicate it might get quite a few people on board eventually.ADB is the most basic and in many circumstances, one of the most powerful Android debugging tools available. See below:Īs I’ve previously said, I get the feeling Microsoft still needs to figure out where it wants to go with the functionality to run Android apps in Windows 11. I’ve tried the Facebook Messenger Lite app and it ran flawlessly. That’s a bit of a bummer, but there are plenty of other Android apps you can run under Windows 11. There are unofficial ways, which we’ll explore in a different article. Yeap, Gmail starts, but won’t actually function properly because currently there’s no official way to use the Google Play Store and its underlying services that run in the background. While you can install most Android Apps from the Google Play store there’s currently no way to install Google Play Services in WSA, so apps that rely on them won’t work, such as Gmail and Google Photos. Open the start menu and type Gmail to open: Now the app is installed just like any other Windows app. My sequence, which won’t apply to you, was: Navigate to the folder you extracted ADB using the Command Prompt basic commands from this article.
You must use Command Prompt ( read about the difference here) and it must start with administrator rights. You need to launch Command Prompt (type cmd in the Start menu) and Run as Administrator.įor some reason, you can’t use the Terminal app or PowerShell. Use Command Prompt to Connect to WSA with ADB and Install Android APKs Use the (1) search bar and find the app you want, (2) download and (3) rename the files to something easier to type and (4) move the APKs to the same folder where you have extracted ADB archive contents. I’m not recommending any website, in particular, I’m just warning you.įor this example, I’m using APKMirror. It’s easy to get a hacked version from “somewhere” that can cause serious troubles, even in a sandboxed virtual machine. This is a tricky part because you must be careful where you download apps from. Download APKs for the Android Apps You Want to Sideload
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