--- title: Windows Subsystem for Android declared ready for prime time description: Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) has been declared ready for prime time First Look. Microsoft appears not to have made an official announcement about the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/windows-subsystem-for-android-declared-ready-for-prime-time-icovlkzay twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Windows Subsystem for Android declared ready for prime time | daily.dev og:description: Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) has been declared ready for prime time First Look. Microsoft appears not to have made an official announcement about the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/windows-subsystem-for-android-declared-ready-for-prime-time-icovlkzay og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ICOVlKzAy.png og:image:alt: Windows Subsystem for Android declared ready for prime time og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Windows Subsystem for Android declared ready for prime time **[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 3 min read · 9 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) has been declared ready for prime time First Look. Microsoft appears not to have made an official announcement about the product's availability. The "50,000 apps" he mentions are only available from the Amazon.com app store – not the larger Google Play digital tat bazaar. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@eyoung** · 0 upvotes > I am curious about this, I don't see why this is important really. There are no workloads that I need Android for - WLS2 sure, and I do but Android. Honestly curious what you can't do in Windows that you need a phone so to do? ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#amazon](https://daily.dev/tags/amazon), [#android](https://daily.dev/tags/android), [#microsoft](https://daily.dev/tags/microsoft), [#ux](https://daily.dev/tags/ux), [#windows](https://daily.dev/tags/windows) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/windows-subsystem-for-android-declared-ready-for-prime-time-icovlkzay) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Windows Subsystem for Android declared ready for prime time","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/windows-subsystem-for-android-declared-ready-for-prime-time-icovlkzay","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/windows-subsystem-for-android-declared-ready-for-prime-time-icovlkzay"},"datePublished":"2022-10-21T05:06:24.309Z","dateModified":"2022-11-14T02:13:59.257Z","description":"Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) has been declared ready for prime time First Look. 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