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Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android
(learn.microsoft.com)
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this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2024
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That's a shame. I really liked it for text-to-speech since the TTS apps for Android are a lot better (and cheap/free) compared to Windows offerings. I use it to grade student essays since I can speed read with TTS+eyes faster and more accurately than I can with just my eyes.
That said, I think there are other ways to get Android apps working in Windows, aren't there? I might need to look into the options, or see if the TTS options on Windows have improved.
WSA was the "killer feature" that made me upgrade from Windows 10. (Although Win+Shift+T for screen capture OCR is huge for me, too..)
I don't know if it's still a thing, or how well it would work for your usages, but I used to use an Android emulator application on Windows called BlueStacks. Might be something to look into. I hope you find something that works well for you!
I'll be so honest, the best android emulator is just downloading the Android SDK. You can pull off anyyyyy set up you want.
Bluestacks works but it's so uuuughhhhHHhH.