✅ Windows Subsystem for Android Alternatives
on my win 11 pc i use WSA to compile my .NET MAUI code (C#). it shows a desktop window with the UI, but i can also compile it using phone emulator or my normal android phone. but on my win 10 laptop I am not able to install WSA for Windows 10 (I tried WSABuilds by MustardChef, but i'm keep getting errors). The Windows Machine gives me errors only. Are there any good alternatives to WSA for Win 10? So i can select it as Android Local Devices and compile it, so it shows me the UI on desktop.
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you just use the emulator like anyone else on win10
maui workload install the emulator along
you open android studio create a phone
and that's it
yeah i have this too
but desktop window was better kinda
not sure what that means
wait
lemme show you
like this
normal window
it even shows task logo
this i am using
on windows 11
that is windows 11 only
like I said above
yeah i know
but i need somehting like this for 10
alternative
and I explained above how it is
on win10
not sure what is the difficult to understand its different on win10.
ive done it too
win 10 does not have WSA, it uses google android emulator
also WSA is gone soon
microsoft terminating it
i know
2025
so better get use to how it was before WSA
so google android emulator can be runned like WSA?
its similar yes
alright
if you're running it as mobile it looks like this
when i run it, it always loads too long
can i fix it?
the first run always takes longer like 3~5 min on a good machine
subsequent runs are faster
for me its kinda every time i run
this is how long it takes to run after the first run
but when i run it on my phone
when u run directly on device it depends on your devices spec
if u can improve that I dont know it depends what your app does etc its not just maui
the same app above runs within 5 seconds on one of my devices
i clicked on this 5 mins ago and its still gray
I assume you properly installed the usb driver?
yeah
and are u debugging via usb or wireless
usb
did u connect adb properly?
maybe u need to refresh it
its not the first time it needs so long
sometimes i only need to wait 10 seconds
sometimes minutes
I never had it hung for so long so I assume it had some issue to build or something
still building
so try restarting your pc
open vs, start adb connect etc
then build
ah finally its loaded
whenever it takes longer than it should something is wrong
yeah
i do it, but maybe it just my laptop which works slowly
because usually u also see the build progress in the output window
yeah but sounds weird if u said its only sometimes
my laptop is not the fastest device
anyway glad its working 🙂
so maybe its because of this
yeah I mean slow spec notebook+running emulator+running vs+building project
its a lot
plus whatever other stuff u have open at the same time
but its okay
just wanted to take my laptop to the holidays trip in case i want to code lmao
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