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Google Play store for WSA on Windows 11 [unofficial]


Uninstall any instance of WSA and enable development options in 'update and security'

Download the WSA package from here and adb toolkit from here

Make a folder named WSAUnpacked and unzip the WSA package into it 

Use a program like WinRAR or 7zip

Right-click on the WSAUnpacked folder 

Open PowerShell as administrator and type

 cd 

 paste the link to the WSAUnpacked folder 

Add-AppxPackage -Register .\AppxManifest.xml

This will install Windows Subsystem for Android with the Google Play store 

Open the start menu and tap on Windows Subsystem for Android app. Enable developer options in the app

Click on 'Files' to launch WSA 

Extract ADBKit in C: drive and copy the path to the folder to the clipboard

Open PowerShell as administrator  

cd > paste the path you copied

Type the address from under development mode in WSA 

adb.exe connect > type in the address

adb.exe shell

su

sentenforce 0

Exit


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