Microsoft is now permitting Windows 11 testers to check out Android apps. A preview model of the Windows Subsystem for Android can be out there to beta testers of Windows 11 immediately, offering entry to apps from the Amazon Appstore. Testers with Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm processors will all have the ability to check out Android apps on Windows 11.

Apps will be loaded by means of the Microsoft Store, which is able to checklist a wide range of apps that then level towards the Amazon Appstore to load and set up. Android apps can run facet by facet with different Windows apps, they usually’re additionally built-in into Alt + Tab and Task view, and you’ll pin them to the Start menu or the taskbar.

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“You can see notifications from Android apps notifications in the Action Center or share your clipboard between a Windows app and an Android app,” explains Android on Windows 11 team. “We have built the experience with accessibility in mind; many Windows accessibility settings apply to Android apps and we are working with Amazon to deliver more improvements.”

Microsoft has partnered with Amazon to curate 50 apps for Windows Insiders to check on Windows 11. These embrace cellular video games like Lords Mobile, June’s Journey, and Coin Master. There are additionally studying apps like Kindle, and youngsters apps like Lego Duplo World or Khan Academy Kids.

Fifty apps is a tiny collection of the greater than 3 million apps out there on the Google Play Store, and even the greater than 600,000 on Amazon’s Appstore. It’s not clear what number of Android apps can be out there as soon as this function is broadly launched for Windows 11.

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Microsoft has constructed a subsystem in Windows 11 to allow Android app assist. It contains the Linux kernel and an Android OS primarily based on Android Open Source Project (AOSP) model 11. “The Subsystem runs in a Hyper-V Virtual Machine, like the Windows Subsystem for Linux,” says Microsoft’s Android apps on Windows 11 group. “It understands how to map the runtime and APIs of apps in the AOSP environment to the Windows graphic layer, the memory buffers, the input modes, the physical and virtual devices, and the sensors.”

This subsystem helps AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm chips, and Microsoft has partnered with Intel to allow Arm-only apps to run on AMD and Intel units.

Microsoft is simply enabling Android apps within the Beta Channel of Windows 11 immediately, and the corporate says it plans to deliver the preview to Dev Channel customers “down the road.” Your Windows 11 PC will must be set to the US area, within the Beta Channel, and it additionally requires a US-based Amazon account to entry the Amazon Appstore.