Karlston Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 Windows PCs could finally run Android apps soon Android apps may be coming to Windows 10 next year (Image credit: Anton Watman / Shutterstock) Rumors indicate that Microsoft is looking into ways of bringing Android apps to the Microsoft Store on Windows 10. If the proposal is implemented it could help alleviate the paucity of apps currently available for the Windows platform. Windows Central reports that the feature could be made available sometime next year, but otherwise had few details to share. How Microsoft will resolve compatibility issues, for example, remains unknown. To offer native Android app compatibility, Microsoft may have to find some way of offering Google Play Services support. Other platforms that have included some form of Android app compatibility have not been able to offer some apps, like Gmail and Uber, that rely on Google Play Services integration. Making an app-earance This is not the first time that Microsoft has looked at ways of porting Android apps to the Windows ecosystem. Back in 2015, the Redmond-based firm announced the launch of Windows Bridge for Android, also known as Project Astoria, before discontinuing it the following year. For anyone that wants to access their favorite Android apps on their Windows devices, there are a few options available to you. A number of Android emulators are available and the latest update to the Your Phone app will allow you to run some Android mobile apps side by side on your Windows 10 PC. Full, native Android support would be a big addition to the Windows 10 platform though, and could also provide a major boost for developers too, who will only have to build one version of their app in order to reach users of both operating systems Via Windows Central Windows PCs could finally run Android apps soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 Ill pass on this Android apps opens up another layer of spyware that desktop didn't already have for abuse . what up with Microsoft every since they made Windows 8 they been trying to turn windows into a smartphone? If Google couldn't migrate Android Apps into Chrome OS without caveats , I doubt Microsoft will be able too. Google gave up and started integrating Linux apps lol. Apple M1 MAC OS has the same problem IOS apps wont launch in full screen unless there made for MAC OS then that would most likely mess them up for IOS lol. Google's OS been doing very well with selling Chrome Books to consumers with people having to learn at home because there cheap . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylence Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 Android app support is really great news, with Project Reunion unifying UWP and Win32, and now Android apps, the future is awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 1 hour ago, Sylence said: @steven36 the real spyware are linux distros. back to the topic: Android app support is really great news, with Project Reunion unifying UWP and Win32, and now Android apps, the future is awesome. Reported you how many times you been warned about trolling me ? I did not say Linux i said Android apps people can't post there opinion on here without being harassed by a known board troll. If people wanted to use Android Apps they would buy a smart phone . Nobody even liked them on Chrome OS and emulators have caused lots of problems with malware and spyware on Windows . This post is from 2015 Why Windows embracing Android and iOS is a bad idea https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-bad-idea-windows-embracing-android-and-ios/ It's official. Microsoft has surrendered the mobile space to Apple and Google. All hail Android! All hail iOS! They been wanting to port others smartphone apps every since they lost the smartphone wars its another sign of defeat just like porting EDGE to Chromium was. They giving all there power other Big tech's ecosystems before long it want even be windows anymore . It already has Linux and Chromium baked into stuff in it that's not evenMicrosoft's code that no one ask for. I dont think no one ask for anything Microsoft has done since Windows 7. Apple does stuff there users dont ask for but at lest they only done it 3 times in there history on there desktop OS and at lest they stay with there own Codebase. But Microsoft manges to try do everything there users dont want every so many years . No body ask for windows ME so they had to fix it in XP No body ask for Windows Vista so they had make up for it with Windows 7 ,Nobody ask for Windows 8 and no body ask for Windows 10 and since they done an apple and copy the Number 10 from here on out any mistakes they make will be from pushing out two versions of Windows 10 a year of stuff people didn't even ask for. Apple is trying become more independent and not rely on 3rd parties ,Microsoft are just handing there OS over to Google's ecosystem . Google make there own stuff with open source . Apple make there own stuff closed source and Linux make there own stuff open source because they had no choice because of patient laws they dont bake stuff in like Big Tech does But Microsoft have been battling the copy cat syndrome every since they made windows 10 and it's got them no were they lost 21% of there OS Market share to other OS since June 2015 and the release of Windows 10 so saying Windows 10 has been good for there Windows market is crazy . https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share#monthly-201506-202011 Always before people had a stable OS to fall back on when they made Windows ME people stayed on Windows 98 SE , When they made Windows Vista most of us staid on XP . When they made Windows 8 people staid on Windows 7. But when they forced people on Windows 10 21 % of us have left windows in 5 years in 5 more years it will most likely be 50% left if they don't make something people want. Im one of the people who left there ecosystem in 2015 but some had already left before me (people who use smartphones) I told people on here like in 2011 that people are leaving Windows for Smartphones they thought i was crazy but i know people in the real world and there internet habits. I seen it was coming but Microsoft just speed up the process . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spudboy Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 1 hour ago, steven36 said: If people wanted to use Android Apps they would buy a smart phone. Speak for yourself and not the entire population. There are several apps I would use on my PC but there is no Windows version. The Yahoo Sports app for one, since it has screen casting disabled and it doesn't work to watch live games on the app using any of the emulators. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 31 minutes ago, spudboy said: Speak for yourself and not the entire population. There are several apps I would use on my PC but there is no Windows version. The Yahoo Sports app for one, since it has screen casting disabled and it doesn't work to watch live games on the app using any of the emulators. Well why dont you just install a emulator then ? If Microsoft bakes it in Windows 10 it will just be emulation. Sorry but the only reason people stay on Windows is because of system 32 Apps that not been ported to other OS. For Production mostly and also Gaming more win 32 apps , people use smartphones and TV Boxes for consumption. Most apps on Android are just web apps that windows don't have yet stuff you can do in your browser why dont no body make software on windows so you can make your own web apps like we have on Linux? I rather use Native Linux webapps built with a native browser than android apps anyday ran trough emulation or even electron. for me to use electron it has to do something unique . I have Windows emulation Crossover 20 on Linux . I tried Android apps on Windows and Linux and I know what they are and they do nothing i have to have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 When i read from the opening post that some guy from windowscentral says he heard they was toying around with the idea of making Android apps work on Windows 10 he dont say who his source was that told him this and its only one sentence and about 15 different sites a bunch of morons made a news article out of a rumor that was one sentence from me researching about it . . But the article talks more about all the stuff Microsoft is doing internal like Windows 10x and them using emulation to run x86 apps on it this is OEM . Also it talks about Windows 10 Arm that is also OEM and it talks about Windows 10 Cloud OS this is cross platform windows as a service they going to sell it like Office 365 , All this stuff will cost you lots of money ether you will need to buy hardware from Microsoft or subscribe to there windows service . But as far as them making Android work even if it so it could be on Windows 10x or Windows 10 ARM once they release these OS they will be like Apple who beat them to the punch and the people left on Win32 will get left behind if they ever become successful at selling Hardware like Apple is . That the only thing holding Microsoft back they have the services people like that made them worth a trillion but they lack in the hardware department microsoft surface dont never be in the list of top hardware vendors and they want to change that and be like Apple and be worth 2 trillion . Apple done did this 3 times its a a good marketing strategy abandon your old hardware for new and you can sell tons of new hardware.. Microsoft done it once already with Vista but they didnt sell hardware at the time they was just a software company but all the PC makers made a killing as soon as Windows 7 came out and people seen they was no future on XP but a certain group of holdout held on to XP tell the bitter end. Also another thing that holds Microsoft back is all this backward compatibility from the 90s with x86 apps .Apple plans to leave Microsoft in the stone age within 2 years they will have all there stuff ported over to Apple ARM it will be totally native with no emulation. Microsoft going to have to step there game up quick. Only thing windows has going for it they have a billion users who fell like they have no alternative. Apple users most of them have more money than they have sense and use it because they can and Linux users don't need no money and use it because they can. Apple has all the big developers on there side anything that can be ported to Apple ARM will be because that were the rich people are at and that were the money tree is . Windows Arm will only get apps if the devs think there's money in it and then they will port them. The biggest problem Microsoft has had is lack of 3rd party devs they all on other platforms. For people to buy the hardware it must have lots of native apps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BimBamSmash Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 It may sound like a useful and innocent move by them Redmond boys to achieve their "help people get the most from Windows" brand mantra. But it also looks like MS has decided that, at this point, the best way to compete with Google is not through competitive/alternative products - but rather, by offering a "clone" of Google stuff either under MS brand (Edge), or on MS platform (Android apps on Windows). So, to me, it looks like this is their plan: present users with familiar environments, features and capabilities from the competitor, but on your very own platform. Push, lure and force users to this however you can. Gradually make it more Microsoft and less Google. I think I can see where their Mobile strategy is really headed. Clever! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlston Posted November 27, 2020 Author Share Posted November 27, 2020 Project Latte is Microsoft’s plan to bring Android apps to Windows We wrote recently that Microsoft appears to be working on a plan to bring Android apps to Windows 10. Now some more details have emerged, courtesy of the WC. Reportedly, as part of Project Latte, Microsoft wants to bring these apps to the Microsoft Store packaged as MSIX files. The Android apps would run in a virtual Android subsystem, similar to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL.) The work will be aided y WSL gaining support for GUI Linux applications and GPU support. Unfortunately, Microsoft reportedly has not solved the biggest issue with these apps – the need for Google Play services, and if apps are dependent on Google Play Services, as most of the better ones are, developers will have to adapt their apps to make them work on Windows. The project is apparently expected to be announced some time next year and ship with Windows 10 21H2. Project Latte is Microsoft’s plan to bring Android apps to Windows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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