I have been using iOS smartphone on board for almost a decade, in subsequent iPhone models, but I still like to sometimes play mobile games, available only on Android. Until now, I used the old Motorola One, unfortunately for some time, I have not been looking for another solution – installing Android on my Windows 11 computer.
I started my search with an obvious direction, in the form of emulators of the Android mobile system on the Windows desktop.
I probably tried everything, from my Play, Gameloop or Bluestacks, and ending with a modified version of Windows Subsystem for Android.
As for emulators, this is a real disaster with devouring laptop resources – I use Dell XPS 13, in which I haven’t heard windmills so far, and when I started one of these emulators, each time the laptop started like a helicopter.
In turn, the modified version of the Provincial Administrative Court with Google Play (Installers can be found on Github – WSABUILDS), it worked great for a month, later not knowing why – all the items from Android stopped suddenly starting.
Considering that from March 2025, Microsoft will end support for Windows Subsystem for Android, so modified versions may stop working, I continued my search. In this way I came across the Blissed OS project.
Android 12 on Windows 11
Bliss Os is an OpenSource project, its sources can be found on GitHub, and through the Bliss OS website, you can download images for Android 11 – Bliss OS 14, Android 12 – Blush OS 15 and for Android 13 – Bliss OS 16 and Blisses os zenith.
As I chose the simplest option and reversible, so a ready installer on Windows 11, which you can download at this link. For this we still need an Android image, I chose the last stable version, i.e. Android 12 – Blush OS 15.
After downloading the archive with the GitHub installer and unpacking it, we find the Androidx86-Installv29.0000 file, in the path: Androidx86-Installer-For-Windows-2.9.0.1 Androidx86-Installer-For-Windows-2.9.0.1 bin make_installer.
We run the installer, indicate the location on the disk to our downloaded Android image, we determine the installation site and the size of the disk that we will need for Android. Personally, I left the default values, they are enough for my three or four items that I use.
Android will install as a virtual drive, and which access can be accessed by restarting the system from the recovery menu – advanced startup.
Personally, I have made it easier for myself by a shortcut on the desktop, with the Shutdown.exe /R /O /F /T 0 command
After the restart, the appropriate menu is launched, in which we select the option: Use the device.
And later – Android -Os.
The full version of Android 12 on the computer, with mouse or trackpad support (they are also used to change the desktops on Android) and the keyboard (there is even a PRTSCR button for making discharges). After logging in to the Google account, we have access to the resources of the Google Play store.
The whole looks great, Android fully uses the computer’s resources, thanks to which it works rapidly and smoothly, better than in its default environment, i.e. on a smartphone or tablet. Of course, you have to get used to using the mouse (trackpad) and keyboard in place of touch, but it is so intuitively that you will change quickly.
What’s more, if you have some older touchside Microsoft Surface Pro, or “tablet-chipper”, you can download the version from Blissos to this device, with a built-in Linux-Surface amendment, and thus with a touching touch-more about this amendment to GitHub.
The good news is that as in your game there are burdensome ads – Blisses blocks them by default, in the sense they appear, but their display time automatically zoom.