Some Android phones (mostly Samsung devices) have enhanced support for Microsoft's Your Phone Windows client, offering access to your messages, notifications, photos, and yes, apps.

Microsoft Windows 11 provides native support for running Android apps, but installing and running APK files on a Mac is much less streamlined.

Microsoft has improved networking on the Windows Subsystem for Android, so that Android apps can connect to devices on the same network as a Windows PC.

Windows 11 can run Android apps, but only a limited number from Amazon's Appstore. Here's how to sideload unsupported Android apps you want to use.