It’s been a few days since Windows Subsystem for Android was released to the public. The Subsystem first appeared in beta preview for Insider builds and was quickly adapted for developer previews. Since then, users have managed to source and install WSA on their systems in a variety of ways, including a very simple custom WSA package that also comes with Gapps pre-installed.
Sideload Android Apps on Windows 11 | APK Installer on WSA
But since the subsystem is still in early beta, we have yet to see Microsoft’s implementation for the final release. If you manually install WSA on Windows 11, you’ll have to sideload apps onto it using the ADB install command, which is a pain in the ass, albeit brutally geeky. Oh yeah, there’s a way to automatically sideload APKs onto WSA with a double-click using a script, but still, we always thought there had to be a better way. Thankfully, there is.
While you could work around the issue and use the Play Store, there’s now another utility available that streamlines the entire process of getting and changing WSA on Windows 11, aptly named WSA Toolbox. Here’s everything you need to know about it.
WSA Toolbox is a new project on Github that lets you install WSA on your system, get a third-party Android app store, and run ADB commands. All of these features are wrapped in a neat GUI, and the whole project is inspired by Fire Toolbox for Amazon Fire devices.