Windows Subsystem for Android Preview Gets Several Improvements, Terms such as PiP, Storage and More

Microsoft recently released an upgrade for Windows Subsystem for Android Preview version 2306. This update introduces a number of improvements for networking, picture in picture, storage, onedrive, security, and others. And according release note shared by Microsoft, this update contains features that many users have requested.

Then what are the improvements presented in this WSA version 2306? the following are among them:

• Camera compatibility improvements
• Fullscreen mode with F11 now displays hover taskbar to improve mouse and touch experience
• Local networking (under Advanced settings – Experimental features) now replacing “Advanced networking”. Android apps can connect to devices on the same network, on all versions of Windows, respect Windows firewall rules, and work with VPNs
• Share user folders (under Advanced settings –Experimental features) now gives users the option to change their default shared folder
• The subsystem will now prompt if an app is trying to use a permission that the subsystem does not have
• The subsystem has switched from EROFS to EXT4 for read-only disks
• Fix for OneDrive folders not showing up in Android apps
• Support for drag and drop for more file types (feature request Unsupported Mimes Types when Drag’n Drop file on app #335)
• Improvements to picture-in-picture (new UI buttons when in PIP)
• Partially running mode now enabled by default for devices with at least 16 GB of memory
• Stability fixes for ARM devices
• Linux kernel updated to 5.15.104
• Android 13 security updates

So keep in mind that to get the Windows Subsystem for Android Preview version, you must first register with the Insider program, the method itself is quite easy, just register and fill out the form provided by Microsoft on the page following.

Oh yes, as explained in release note above, for you WSA users with 16 GB of RAM installed on your device, now partially mode will be by default enabledso you no longer need to activate it manually.

And that’s it, as usual the same version will be released in the next few weeks for Windows Subsystem for Android Stable users, and are you a WSA user? comment below guys.

Via: Microsoft (GitHub)