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Is there a good way to run android apps on desktop?
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Windows Subsystem for Android.
~~Or is it Android Subsystem for Windows?~~
Android apps appear to run natively on Windows (so they're not in a VM looking box, they behave like Windows apps). They don't have access to the local file system, they have access to their own file system, just like using a phone.
The easiest way to move files in/out is to use a file manager that can access SMB shares (like MiXplorer), or use Syncthing on the desktop and in the Subsystem, and sync a folder on the desktop.
Don't make me tap the sign:
What's that mean?
If you want help in some other language, maybe post in that language.
You posted in English, with some non English in there, I have no idea wtfuck it is, so I ignore it.
I gave you a solid answer, with a link, why you gotta be a dick?
Think you're talking past each other: [thing] delenda est is common parlance here on Hexbear as a general term of disparagement (comes from Carthago delenda est), so by putting that in the post OP was indicating she didn't want any solutions that require Windows 11.
That being said, apparently there are ways to get WSA to work on Windows 10: see WSAPatch and the script mentioned here which purports to automate a lot of the WSAPatch steps. I can't vouch for them at all, so do your due diligence and all that before proceeding.
edit: also apparently Microsoft is discontinuing support for WSA in six months. Thanks, Microsoft, very cool!
WSApatch sounds absolutely awesome, thanks a load. I would like to use Android apps most on my W10 convertible laptop, so this is perfect ✨
Op could have just said what OS they actually have. Which is kinda the most important thing.
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Angloids, seriously.
Two secomds on any search engine will tell you what "delenda est" means, it isn't even an uncommon phrase. "Carthago delenda est"? Sheesh.
But seriously who uses W11 unironically...