Android Apps on Windows

[Robert Valentino]

Has anyone tried this new feature the Windows supposedly has that allows you to run Android Apps on your Windows device through your Phone?

I have Samsung Phone / Devices but none of them new enough to try this.

Just wondering if it works? Windows 10 & Android

 

[hatzisn]

I do not know if you are referring to "Your phone" application by Microsoft which connects to your phone and displays its screen in a separate clickable window - I think it requires blue tooth.

Edit - You are referring to it. I have tried it and it works as described).
Edit 2 - If you cannot do this with your phone then follow the AirDroid way which is in circulation a lot of years before Microsoft invent the wheel).

 

[rabbitBUSH]

So this is the "Link to Windows" item in the phone's pull-down menu?

SO, I have a Samsung (Galaxy A30s) with the feature.

Frankly, I haven't tried it and just had a look now to see what needs to be done - but I kinda don't want to go there - for a range of reasons - the phone being such a transactional device for me (screaming wobblies in the brain) so to add using the PC I am sitting at, viewed on the phone/phone viewed on the PC - doesn't compute in that range of activities. Personally don't have a use for transfering files between the two either - but, then, I am no longer a "road-warrior"; and there is drop box etc, anyway.

What that all means is my question is : Why?

Looking at what the Samsung/Microsoft sites say about the functionality - I'm not really interested in using those - it doesn't say whether its bluetooth or direct WIFI or what - so it will probably depend on the PC having bluetooth (don't know how many machines have that hardware installed - it would have to be "recent" machine I suppose).

So, sorry, but I don't know how well it works - but would be interested to know the experiences of others who try it, anyway.

OH and, I'm not a registered Microsoft Account user - and don't need to be.

 

[Robert Valentino]

I agree completely. I am also not a registered Microsoft Account and don't believe I need to be one either.