Windows 11 has a new feature now available to beta testers. Here's how you can install Android apps on Windows 11 right now.

Windows Subsystem for Android allows Windows 11 PCs to run Android apps. With this feature, Microsoft allowed users to run Android apps without needing an Android emulator or virtual machines.

Android Studio One way to get Android apps running on a PC is to go through the Android emulator released by Google as part of the official Android Studio. The emulator can be used to create ...

Remix OS Player is free an Android emulator that lets you run an Android environment inside of your current operating system. Just download and run an .exe file to get started.

The emulator has new Layercake technology, which exploits hardware accelerators to improve the performance of Android games in Windows. The layer was not included in the Bluestacks alpha version.

Still, a Microsoft-built Android emulator might be better than nothing, right? And even if it doesn't completely fill in the app gap, it could at least address it in some way. What do you think?

You can now run Android apps on your Windows desktop, but why on earth would you want to do that? Because there's a world of cool, useful and down-right funky Android apps just waiting to be used ...