Android apps are increasingly integrated into Windows 10. Through the ‘Your Phone’ functionality Microsoft has integrated notifications, messages, photos, calls and other phone options directly into Windows. Now, thanks to a new update and for the moment for some Samsung phones, it is possible to directly run Android apps on the computer. Microsoft integrates Android apps directly into Windows 10 through ‘Your Phone’.
The truth is that previously Windows 10 could already show Android applications on the phone through a kind of mirroring that reflected what was happening on the phone. Now however it is something different, applications can be run directly from Windows without having to open them on the phone, although they still come from there.
The functionality has been announced for the newly introduced Samsung Galaxy Note 20 . It will arrive in the coming months during this year and they say they are working to get it to more Samsung phones. At the moment it is not clear if we will also have it on phones of other brands. The official list of compatible phones at the moment only shows Samsung mobiles.
With its own window and in the taskbar or the Start menu
While the rest of Your Phone integrations are done in the Your Phone app itself, the option to run Android apps directly creates a new window and essentially behaves like a Windows app . This means for example that we can for example pin them to the taskbar to open them quickly. It is also possible to navigate between apps (Android and Windows) with Alt + Tab without there being any difference between them.
Microsoft integrates Android apps directly into Windows 10 through ‘Your Phone’. Where we can find differences is in the operation and performance itself. Microsoft warns that not all Android apps will work perfectly and some may fail. For example it should come as no surprise if some show a black screen or if they don’t support sound or keyboard and mouse input.