Guide: How to install Google Play Store on Windows xi

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Google Play Store logo with the stock Windows 11 wallpaper in the background

Microsoft recently released Windows Subsystem for Android Preview for all Windows 11 users, effectively assuasive you to run Android apps on a computer. Unfortunately, it does not provide admission to the Google Play Store. Instead, Microsoft partnered with Amazon to requite Windows 11 users Android apps through the Amazon App Store.

If y'all practice not want to use the Amazon App Store to download and install Android apps, here is a detailed guide about installing the Google Play Store on Windows 11.

Important: Microsoft does non back up the Google Play Store on Windows 11, which means things can become sideways at any moment. Microsoft might button an update to throw a wrench into the affair and disable the Google Play Store on your calculator. Keep in listen that you are responsible for your actions, devices, and potential damages.

We have successfully tested this guide earlier publishing it, but we cannot guarantee the Google Play Store volition work on your estimator. Also, you may want to consider minimum hardware requirements for Android apps on Windows 11.

The Google Play Store running on a PC with Windows 11

Install Google Play Store on Windows 11

Nosotros recommend starting with a "clean" installation with no existing instances of Windows Subsystem for Android. If you already accept one, uninstall it.

  1. Press Win + R and enter optionalfeatures. Y'all need this to enable Virtual Motorcar Platform and Windows Subsystem for Linux. The latter is required to modify the WSA kernel to include Google Services.
  2. Place checkmarks adjacent to Virtual Car Platform and Windows Subsystem for Linux.

    Optional Features UI in Windows 11

  3. Click OK and wait for Windows to download the necessary files. Restart your computer once prompted.
  4. At present it is fourth dimension to download Windows Subsystem for Android. Open the store.rg-adguard.cyberspace page. Information technology allows downloading files from the Microsoft Shop.
  5. Prepare the first drop-down listing to ProductID, then paste 9P3395VX91NR into the search box. Select Irksome from the 2d drop-down, then click the button with a checkmark icon.

    Installing Google Play Store on Windows

  6. The website will generate a list of bachelor files to download. Scroll downwardly and notice the largest files that "weighs" approximately 1.2GB. Information technology has the msixbundle extension in its name.

    Installing Google Play Store on Windows

  7. Also, download the Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.6_2.62112.3002.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe.appx file. You may need it in time to come steps for troubleshooting.

    Installing Google Play Store on Windows

  8. Open the OpenGapps website. In that location yous volition download Google Services for your reckoner. Select the x86_64 platform, Android xi.0, and the pico variant. Click the large red button to download the annal.
    Installing Google Play Store on Windows
  9. Next, install Ubuntu from the Microsoft Store.
  10. Finally, go to a GitHub repository using this link and download the WSAGAScript.

Those are all the files you need to install the Google Play Store on Windows 11. We will now show y'all how to gear up the files and alter the WSA kernel.

  1. Find that large msixbundle file you have downloaded from the store.rg-adguard.cyberspace website. Open up the file in whatsoever app for athenaeum. 7Zip is a solid variant you lot tin download from the official website for costless.
  2. You will find lots of msix-files inside the archive. Find the biggest ane (approximately 720MB) and open up information technology inside 7Zip.

    Installing Google Play Store on Windows

  3. Launch File Explorer and navigate to drive C. There, create a new folder and rename it to WindowsSubsystemAndroid.
  4. Go dorsum to 7Zip with the open msix-file. Extract all files from the file to the WindowsSubsystemAndroid binder.
  5. Now you need to remove several files and folders. Delete the AppsMetadata directory, AppxBlockMap, AppxSignature, and Content_Types.
  6. Go to drive C and create another folder. This fourth dimension, rename it to GAppsWSA.
  7. Open the WSAGAScript archive and the merely folder within it. Extract all the files from the folder to GAppsWSA.
  8. Find the archive y'all accept downloaded from the OpenGapps website and copy it to C:\GAppsWSA\#Gapps (assuming your current Windows installation is on drive C).
  9. Now render to WindowsSubsystemAndroid in drive C and copy the production, arrangement, syste_ext, and vendor files to the C:\GAppsWSA\#IMAGES folder.

All files are now locked and loaded, ready for hacking within WSL.

  1. Launch Ubuntu from the Start bill of fare. If this is the offset time you are launching Ubuntu, the OS will evidence an error and ask you to download the Linux kernel update packet. You tin can get it from the official Microsoft documentation using this link.
  2. Close Ubuntu, launch the downloaded file and keep with the installation.
  3. Relaunch Ubuntu. This fourth dimension, it will ask yous to requite a new user a proper name and a password. Annotation that the OS will not brandish password characters as yous type.
  4. At present we need to get to the GAppsWSA directory. Type cd /mnt/c/GAppsWSA/ and hit Enter on your keyboard.
  5. It is now time to execute a bunch of commands inside WSL. Enter apt update and press Enter. Look for the organisation to complete the procedure. Go on with the post-obit commands one after another, and be sure to press Enter after inbound each.
  6. apt upgrade
  7. apt install lzip unzip
  8. apt install dos2unix
  9. dos2unix ./employ.sh
  10. dos2unix ./extend_and_mount_images.sh
  11. dos2unix ./extract_gapps_pico.sh
  12. dos2unix ./unmount_images.sh
  13. dos2unix ./VARIABLES.sh
  14. ./extract_gapps_pico.sh
  15. ./extend_and_mount_images.sh
  16. ./apply.sh
  17. ./unmount_images.sh

Your custom WSA kernel with Google Services is at present set. All that is left is to install Windows Subsystem for Android and make sure the Google Play Shop is working correctly on your Windows 11 computer.

  1. Go to C:\GAppsWSA\#IMAGES and copy the post-obit files: product, organisation, system_ext, and vendor. Paste those files into C:\WindowsSubsystemAndroid.
  2. Get to C:\WindowsSubsystemAndroid\Tools and rename the kernel file to kernel_bak.
  3. Open the C:\GAppsWSA\misc folder and find the kernel_x64_64 file. Copy and paste the file in the C:\WindowsSubsystemAndroid\Tools folder.
  4. Rename the file to kernel.
  5. Now it is time to enable Programmer Mode on your computer. Open the Settings app and go to Privacy and Security > For Developers. Toggle on the Developer Manner switch, and ostend the action when prompted.
    Installing Google Play Store on Windows
  6. Final stretch. All that is left is to execute a control to install WSA with the Google Play Store on Windows 11. Right-click the Start menu button and select Windows Terminal (Admin).
  7. Paste the following command: Add-AppxPackage -Register C:\WindowsSubsystemAndroid\AppxManifest.xml. Printing Enter.
  8. Terminal may show you the following mistake: Add-AppxPackage : Deployment failed with HRESULT: 0x80073CF3, Packet failed updates, dependency or disharmonize validation. Windows cannot install package. To fix this consequence, launch the Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.6_2.62112.3002.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe.appx file y'all have downloaded before. Later that, echo the previous footstep.
  9. Windows Subsystem for Android is now prepare to go. Open up the Start menu and find Windows Subsystem for Android. Launch it.
    Installing Google Play Store on Windows
  10. Toggle on the Developer Mode switch, and so click Files. That will start WSA (practice not share diagnostic data with Microsoft), and you will meet notifications from Google Services well-nigh installing apps with all the needed components.
    Installing Google Play Store on Windows
  11. In a minute or two, you lot will see the Google Play Store in the list of all apps. Y'all can launch information technology, sign in with your Google account, and download all the apps and games y'all need. Keep in heed that some of them may not work on Windows computers.
    Installing Google Play Store on Windows

All the apps installed from the Google Play Store on Windows 11 will show up as regular programs on your PC in the Start menu. You can uninstall them just as yous do with native Windows apps.

That is information technology. Now you know how to install the Google Play Store on Windows 11.