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Reviving Astoria – Windows's Lost Android
Are you a die-hard fan of Project Astoria, Microsoft's former solution to bridging the app gap on
With the help of more glue services, Astoria allowed many Android applications to run alongside with native Windows apps and seamlessly integrate into the environment with little performance penalty, unlike existing solutions which spawns a full virtual machine. This function got unblocked in the RS1 branch to pave the way for WSL, but experienced an ABI break starting from build 14347, preventing Astoria drivers to load on newer versions of Windows. In the near future, some work will be done in lxmonika to handle different versions of the PsRegisterPicoProvider function, allowing it to act as a shim between the core Windows kernel and Project Astoria drivers.
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