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Re: Windows Subsystem for Android

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Brian Gregory wrote on Tue, 1 Oct 2024 00:08:10 +0100 :

> On 30/09/2024 00:21, Andrew wrote:
>> Hence, I haven't found the need to even test Windows Subsystem for Android.
>> What does WSL [you mean WSA] do that emulation &/or mirroring doesn't already do for you?
> 
> What WSA does is allow me to to run an Android app exactly as if it was 
> a Windows app. Maybe some of the other emulators are close enough to 
> that, I don't know because I've never tried any of the other emulators.
> 
> I started using WSA before Microsoft decided to abandon it, so it was, 
> at that point, a reasonable choice.
> 
> Maybe one of the other emulators would actually be better because WSA 
> doesn't include the Google Play store, only the Amazon app store, which 
> is pretty useless almost everything except maybe games.

Thanks for explaining why you like WSA, which I can't disagree with, other
than to say emulation and mirroring are DIFFERENT but can result in the
same outcome - which is an Android app runs or displays on a Windows PC.

They're all different though, as emulation, for example, takes advantage of
the PC's CPU while mirroring only interacts with the real phone's CPU.

As for the Google Play Store, I load more software from the Google Play
Store repository than most people do (as I test software every day), and I
have long ago deleted the Google Play Store from my unrooted Android phone.

There's never a need for the Google Play Store since you can get the exact
apps from the exact repository (it's not separate - it _is_ the Google Play
Store Repository!) for free using open source Google Play Store clients.

I need to stress that it's _is_ the Google Play Store repository where
you're getting the apps as the only thing that changes is the client.

Much like if you took your browser to a photo web site to get photos, and
if you changed your browser from Chrome to Firefox, you'd still get the
exact same photos from the photo repository. Nothing changed but the
client.

Same thing here.

I'm not talking about APK repositories either as I'm talking about the
exact Google Play Store repository - so the app APKs are exactly those.

There *never* is a need for the Google Play Store app on Android.
People who use it either don't care about privacy or don't know about it.

Most people don't know any of this stuff, so it's hard to teach in text.
My suggestion is you ask for advice on the Android newsgroup also.

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Windows Subsystem for Android Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2024-09-29 00:24 +0100
  Re: Windows Subsystem for Android Andrew <andrew@spam.net> - 2024-09-29 23:21 +0000
    Re: Windows Subsystem for Android Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2024-10-01 00:08 +0100
      Re: Windows Subsystem for Android Andrew <andrew@spam.net> - 2024-10-01 00:18 +0000
        Re: Windows Subsystem for Android Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2024-10-02 00:25 +0100
          Re: Windows Subsystem for Android Andrew <andrew@spam.net> - 2024-10-02 01:25 +0000
            Re: Windows Subsystem for Android Andrew <andrew@spam.net> - 2024-10-02 01:38 +0000
            Re: Windows Subsystem for Android Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2024-10-03 13:45 +0100
              Re: Windows Subsystem for Android Andrew <andrew@spam.net> - 2024-10-03 20:30 +0000
                Re: Windows Subsystem for Android Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2024-10-03 21:49 +0100
                Re: Windows Subsystem for Android Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2024-10-03 22:00 +0100

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