The arrival of Windows 11 21H2 finally made it possible, run Android apps “native” on Windows 11. This new feature marked an important turning point as it greatly expanded the capabilities of the computer and also improved the user experience as it allowed us to finally run our favorite Android games and apps on our PC.

Those of you who read us daily already know the richness and variety of applications, both for productivity and for leisure, that we can find in the Android app store, and that alone speaks for itself to be able to run natively on Windows 11 with the Windows for Android subsystem being the key to achieving this “native” run. quotes because it actually runs through a virtual machine that supports the Android Open Source Project (AOSP).

To achieve a good user experience with Android apps and offer a good level of performance, the Redmond giant in cooperation with Intel they created “Bridge Technology” (“Bridge Technology”), a runtime postcompiler that is key to running mobile applications on x86 CPUs. This allowed a good optimization on Windows 11 computers with Intel processorbut unfortunately it didn’t have the same impact on computers using AMD CPUs.

With that in mind, it’s clear that Windows 11 has a pending account with AMD processors on the issue of optimal launch of Android applications, but has other open queues. Along these lines, it should be noted that some performance issues have been generally confirmed, especially affecting boot times that may be longer than usual.

To solve this problem and others that have been going on for some time now, Microsoft has developed a a new version of the Windows subsystem for Androidmarked as 2208.40000.4.0, which represents improvements affecting the performance, stability, and security of Android apps and games running on Windows 11.

Other important improvements What is worth mentioning in this new version is the increase in network performance, better performance in games, improvements in the integration of game controls, faster removal of applications and reducing input lag and startup time.

At the moment, this new version of the Windows subsystem for Android is only available in the Windows 11 preview channel, and limited to the United States and Japan, so testing will require being part of that channel and changing our location to those countries. No problem, because once we download it, we can go back to our real position. At this time, we do not know the release date of this new version of the Windows subsystem for Android in the general channel, so we can only wait.