Ideas and Methods
July 2022
It has been thrilling to see suggestions on the Home windows Subsystem for Android™, the core engine behind Cellular Apps on Home windows since we first made it accessible to our Home windows Insiders viewers final October. Whereas we clearly admire the phrases of encouragement, we additionally worth the solutions on how we will do higher. We’ve been in a position to act on a few of this suggestions to make WSA a greater product, and we’ll proceed to make use of that suggestions to prioritize new options and enhancements sooner or later.
Right this moment we’d prefer to share extra about a number of the lesser-known options of WSA, as we consider these are helpful instruments for customers of the product to know.
Full Display screen apps
One of many prime items of suggestions we acquired when WSA was launched final fall was to permit apps to enter “Full Display screen Mode”, which means eliminate the titlebar and taskbar giving customers a extra immersive expertise. We listened, and we have now since added that function. When working an utility inside WSA, you should use F11 to toggle it into/out of full display screen mode.
Horizontal swipes
We’ve achieved work to translate mouse scroll wheel occasions into up and down swipes. If you happen to maintain down the Shift key and use the scroll wheel, we’re in a position to translate that into horizontal swipes. Notice, that is additionally how one can carry out horizontal scrolling in native Home windows functions.
Two Finger swipes
We’ve seen that some functions need customers to make use of fingers to carry out actions within the app. To simulate that in WSA, should you maintain down the ALT button, after which click on and drag with the mouse, we’ll ship two finger touches and swipes to the applying.
Gamepad assist
Since WSA got here out final October, you should use with apps that assist gamepad. A few our favorites to play with the gamepad embrace:
Thanks for all of your assist with WSA. Please proceed to file suggestions through the Suggestions Hub with any points or solutions you might need. Collectively we will all make this a greater product.
Thanks,
– The WSA Workforce
