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XBMC Ported To Android

Posted by Soulskill on from the xbmc-around-town dept.

New submitter TheUni writes with news that XBMC has been announced for Android. Quoting: "Not a remote, not a thin client; the real deal. No root or jailbreak required. XBMC can be launched as an application on your set-top-box, tablet, phone, or wherever else Android may be found. The feature-set on Android is the same that you have come to expect from XBMC, no different from its cousin on the desktop. Running your favorite media-center software on small, cheap, embedded hardware is about to become a hassle-free reality. And as Android-based set-top-boxes are becoming more and more ubiquitous, it couldn't be a better time. ... We will begin releasing apks for interested beta testers in the coming weeks. But for those who are up to the task, as you would expect from XBMC, the source code is available. We have decided not to push to Google Play until we are satisfied that users with all kinds of devices get the same great XBMC experience."

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  1. Re:If anyone wondered what to use the Q for by mwvdlee · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Most others are something you can easily hide from view in your living room.

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  2. Re:What in the Sam Hill is XBMC? by oakgrove · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Considering the submission is obviously product advertising written by a marketing droid

    Yeah, that's the one thing open source projects are well known for. Advertising and marketing...

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  3. Re:If anyone wondered what to use the Q for by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The Pi is a fantastic piece of kit for what it is but it truly astounds me how people try to use it for things it clearly was not intended for. If you want a media center, you are going to want to watch videos at 1080P, you are going to want Netflix, you are going to want Hulu, you are going to want http://www.tubeplus.me/ you are going to want to transcode DVD's you rent at redbox, you are going to want to rip blu-ray's, you are going to want to store TB's of data, you are going to want to play AAA games on the TV set with a controller, and on and on. The only answer to do everything is a PC running an x86/x86_64 processor and as much as I hate to say it Windows or OSX as the operating system. Period. Anything else invites frustration and wistful longing for the real thing.