I mean, Waydroid works fine with Aurorastore and even Playstore. Sure that may break, but all that capitalist “we buy licenses” BS of course costs money
Comment on Microsoft Ending Support For Windows Subsystem For Android
mlg@lemmy.world 6 months ago
If they hadn’t locked into amazon appstore, I feel like they could have made it work.
Either cough up money for Playstore or better yet just make windows store compatible with android and easier to use.
Pantherina@feddit.de 6 months ago
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The Android app store is the most mature app store outside of Google Play. It’s not just as simple as converting the Windows store to Android because of course they need to develop an Android version of every app in the windows store.
mlg@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I meant just allowing people to publish APKs to the windows store, not converting every app.
Although WSA let you sideload apps anyway so I’m thinking maybe Microsoft just didn’t see any big profit potential which is why they’re shutting down.
zurohki@aussie.zone 6 months ago
TIL there’s an Amazon app store.
Quexotic@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Lol. Yeah, they’ve got quite the wall around their garden. It’s hell getting the play store running on their hardware.
maccentric@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I recently discovered Aurora, which allowed me to easily install Firefox on my Fire HD. Lots of other stuff too (better launcher, for instance) but I found it because the web just sucks without Ublock
Cerothen@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Have you ever tried using aurora instead of the play store for devices that don’t natively have it?
auroraoss.com
Quexotic@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Nope. Never had enough trust. I’d sooner use a website and use virustotal to scan. At least you know what you are getting that way.
I may experiment with it on an expendable device, so thank you all the same.
Dehydrated@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It works very well, I use it all the time on GrapheneOS