How to install Google Play Store in Windows 11 (WSA)

In this article I will show you how to install the Google Play Store in Windows 11 through the Windows Subsystem for Android. We will use some scripts and resources provided by ADeltaX on Github.

Before doing anything, make sure you have United States selected on the Country and region setting and the Windows Settings app, and also make sure you enabled Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Platform in Windows Features. If you don’t know how to do that, check this article. Additionally you may need to enable virtualization for your processor in the BIOS, but that is really simple to do and it depends on the type of motherboard that you have.

Things that we need at the beginning

1. Download Windows Subsystem for Android
2. Windows Subsystem for Linux with Ubuntu or any other distribution installed
3. Download 7zip

Download Windows Subsystem for Android

Next up, you will need to download the Windows Subsystem for Android. Click here to download from the official Microsoft Page, or if this doesn’t work, follow the next steps.

Copy the link above and go to store.rg-adguard.net, paste the link there, select Slow from the right button and click on the checkmark.

Alternatively Download from Wetransfer.com (link available for 7 days)

From the list loaded download the last link, which is Windows Subsystem for Android .msixbundle.

Download and install 7zip

To access the 7zip download page, just click on this link. Download the 64-bit .exe version for Windows and then install it by clicking on the install button.

Download and install Windows Subsystem for Linux with Ubuntu

Open the Microsoft Store and type Windows Subsystem for Linux. Once you click on it, click on Install to start the installation.

After that, search for Ubuntu and install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

Setup Windows Subsystem for Android

Open 7zip and then right click on the WSA Installer to click on Copy as path.

Paste the path copied in the 7zip address bar and then press Enter. You are now inside the WSA Installer.

Here double click on the x64 package from the WSA Installer. Create a new folder in the C partition named WindowsSubsystemAndroid and drag and drop all the files from that package, except AppxMetadata, [Content_Types].xml, AppxBlockMap.xml and AppxSignature.p7x to that newly created folder.

To deselect a certain file from a selection, while holding CTRL on your keyboard, click on each file that you want to be deselected.

Setup ADeltaX scripts

Create a new folder in the C partition named GAppsWSA.

Download the contents from the ADeltaX Github and extract all the files in that folder that you’ve just created.

ADeltaX Github Link

Download Google Play Store files

Access this page and select x86_64 from the platform, 11.0 from Android and pico from the Variant. After that click on the Download button.

Copy the downloaded archive into the #GAPPS folder from GAppsWSA.

Make changes to Image Disks from WSA

From the WindowsSubsystemAndroid folder copy vendor, system_ext, system and product image disks.

Paste the files into the #IMAGES folder from GAppsWSA.

Now you will need to open the Ubuntu Distribution. If you open it for the first time, you will need to set a new username and a password.

Type the following command to have administrative privileges (you will need to enter the password that you set before):

sudo su

Change the directory to the GAppsWSA folder by using these 2 commands or use the third one directly if your location if the same:

cd .. (to go back to the parent directory)
ls (to see all the files from the directory)

cd /mnt/c/GAppsWSA/

After you changed the location, install lzip and unzip using the following command:

apt install lzip unzip

If you receive an error, run the following command and then run the previous command again:

sudo apt-get update

Run the following command to install dos2unix:

apt install dos2unix

Now run the following 5 commands, one after another:

dos2unix ./apply.sh
dos2unix ./extend_and_mount_images.sh
dos2unix ./extract_gapps_pico.sh
dos2unix ./unmount_images.sh
dos2unix ./VARIABLES.sh

After that, run the following 4 commands:

./extract_gapps_pico.sh
./extend_and_mount_images.sh
./apply.sh
./unmount_images.sh

Copy the 4 image disks files from the #IMAGES folder from GAppsWSA and replace them in the WindowsSubsystemAndroid folder.

Replace the Windows Subsystem for Android kernel

Go into the GAppsWSA folder and then misc to copy the kernel file.

In WindowsSubsystemAndroid/Tools rename the existing kernel file to kernel1 and then paste the kernel file.

We are doing this, so that the default kernel file won’t be replaced.

Install Windows Subsystem for Android

Open Windows Powershell as administrator and then run the following command:

Add-AppxPackage -Register "C:\WindowsSubsystemAndroid\AppxManifest.xml"

If you receive the following error, you will need to enable Developer Mode in Windows Settings. Open the Settings app, search for developer mode and then enable it, by clicking on the Yes button. After that run the command again and you should be good to go.

Open Windows Subsystem for Android and enable Developer mode and then click on Manage developer settings.

Deselect Share my diagnostic data and then click on Continue. After the app is opened you can close it and open the Google Play Store.

Fix Sign in not working in Google Play Store

If you are trying to Sign in and the button doesn’t work, follow the next steps from the article.

Download ADBKit from ADeltaX

After you downloaded the files, extract them in a new folder named ADBKit in the C partition.

In the folder where you extracted the files, right click and then click on Open in Windows Terminal.

In the Windows Subsystem for Android, next to IP address click on Refresh and then copy the ip address that contains the port also.

In the Windows Powershell type the following command (make sure to change the IP address if it is different for you):

./adb.exe connect 127.0.0.1:58526

Don’t worry if it says failed to authenticate, because this is only a bug, as you are already connected.

Now type the following commands in the Windows Powershell:

./adb.exe shell
su
setenforce 0

You are good to go, but the last step would be to restore the default kernel file from WindowsSubsystemAndroid/Tools.

Rename the kernel file to kernel_v2 for example and kernel1 to kernel.

This is how you can install the Google Play Store in Windows 11 through the Windows Subsystem for Android. You can now install any app that you want through the Google Play Store.

For a more in depth explanation, watch the video below from the youtube channel.