XBMC Ported To Android

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."

Comments

Re:If anyone wondered what to use the Q for

[mwvdlee]

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

Re:What in the Sam Hill is XBMC?

[oakgrove]

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...