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XBMC Box - TopherLee513 - 2012-03-01 They had one, Microsoft Xbox. XBMC4Xbox... I have three now. Although it's not very powerful, the kids are happy. And I have the XBMC Remote app for Android. Very useful investment. Totally worth it. Now I just need XBMC on my phone and tablet. RE: Port XBMC to Android OS so that it can run on Google TV based platforms and such? - johndoe2000 - 2012-04-10 Whats the current status of Android and NDKs ? All these new SoCs are very powerfull. Tegra3, Exynos 52xx etc. I'm waiting for a video player thats able to play RARs files streamed from a network. When such a applikation is out I will buy a tablet. RE: Port XBMC to Android OS so that it can run on Google TV based platforms and such? - RockerC - 2012-04-11 Android NDK Revision 7c (April 2012) and SDK Tools Revision 18 (April 2012) for Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) was just released yesterday http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html http://developer.android.com/sdk/tools-notes.html What could also be of help to this development is that Google have updated the Android Emulator with with GPU hardware accelerated OpenGL ES 2.0 support http://android-developers.blogspot.ca/2012/04/faster-emulator-with-better-hardware.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/hsDu+%28Android+Developers+Blog%29 http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/devices/emulator.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T--vFtyZvc4 Android Emulator now also features hardfp (hardware floating point) operation support, and much higher CPU performance in general, as well as hardware features such as the ability to tap into the sensors and multi-touch input of a tethered Android device http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/09/googles-android-emulator-gets-updated-with-gpu-support-better/ RE: Port XBMC to Android OS so that it can run on Google TV based platforms and such? - johndoe2000 - 2012-04-11 Okay, I will keep my fingers crossed then! RE: Port XBMC to Android OS so that it can run on Google TV based platforms and such? - Rodimus - 2012-04-13 I keep nipping back, hoping it's been ported lol. My Dad had xbmc on his ipad, was great. Shame I'm an android kinda guy. RE: Port XBMC to Android OS so that it can run on Google TV based platforms and such? - darkscout - 2012-04-13 (2012-04-10, 18:25)johndoe2000 Wrote: I'm waiting for a video player thats able to play RARs files streamed from a network. I don't mean to thread jack but what is with people obsessed with watching RARs? SABNZBD unrars automatically. Torrents are usually whole files. Ripping yourself doesn't even put it into RARs. Not to mention it takes like 60 seconds to do an 'unrar -x' on a large file. RE: Port XBMC to Android OS so that it can run on Google TV based platforms and such? - RockerC - 2012-05-25 Intel have now released an x86-friendly Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) system image for the Android SDK to run the Android emulator at almost the native speed of Intel x86 CPU architecture computers http://www.androidcentral.com/intel-releases-x86-system-image-android-emulator http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/24/intel-posts-x86-friendly-android-4-0-image/ Quote:Android developers are all too familiar with not-so-hot emulator performance, so it's a relief that there's now an system image in a native x86 for testing. While you'll still likely want to test on ARM, the x86 image will both help ferret out bugs specific to Intel's architecture as well as provide a much faster experience debugging apps now that the ARM-to-Intel translation isn't needed on top of running a whole second operating system. It's not perfectly up to date, running on Android 4.0.3, but it's close enough that the environment will mimic much of what users see -- and a big help if you're jumping into writing specifically for Intel devices. If speed is of the essence, or you're not keen on importing a Lava Xolo X900, you just need to update the SDK Manager to start testing with an Intel-flavored green robot.For Mac OS X computers you apparently need to install HAXM separately to run the Android emulator with GPU acceleration http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/installation-instructions-for-intel-hardware-accelerated-execution-manager-macosx/ [EDIT]: For non-devs, there is a version of the x86 Android 4.0.3 system image package for VirtualBox available on BuilDroid, with VirtualBox VM configuration but no change in the Android code http://www.buildroid.org/blog Android NDK Revision 8 (May 2012) and SDK Tools Revision 19 (May 2012) for Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) have been released now by the way http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html Quote:This release of the NDK includes support for MIPS ABI and a few additional fixes. http://developer.android.com/sdk/tools-notes.html Quote:Bug fixes:This should open a way to a future port XBMC for Android on Sigma Designs MIPS SoCs, if and when XBMC has been ported to Android on ARM + x86 XBMC for Google TV. The world needs this. - mcsandwich - 2012-06-15 Every time I check it seems XBMC is available for another platform, but still not for Google TV. While GTV has a few decent media players, not of them compare XBMC. I speak for all the GTV users out there when I say, please give us XBMC we need it. It would take GTV from being good to great. So, what do you say developers? Can you get it done? RE: XBMC for Google TV. The world needs this. - artrafael - 2012-06-15 See this existing thread in this forum: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=84194 RE: XBMC for Google TV. The world needs this. - Ned Scott - 2012-06-15 Yet another request for Andriod. Exactly the same as before. Sadly, we have no news on this front. RE: Port XBMC to Android OS so that it can run on Google TV based platforms and such? - Ned Scott - 2012-06-15 Threads merged RE: Port XBMC to Android OS so that it can run on Google TV based platforms and such? - RockerC - 2012-06-28 Android SDK Tools Revision 20 (June 2012) have now been released with yesterdays announcement of Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) http://developer.android.com/sdk/tools-notes.html Quote:SDK Tools, Revision 20 (June 2012) No new revision of Android NDK have however been announced or released yet this month at the same time as was expected http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html Most interesting news in Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) for XBMC developers would probably be the new APIs in its API Level: 16 http://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-4.1.html For example: Quote:Media codecs Coming soon is also a Google Play services API https://developers.google.com/android/google-play-services/index Quote:Google Play services (coming soon) Here is some more information for developers about Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) http://developer.android.com/about/versions/jelly-bean.html RE: Port XBMC to Android OS so that it can run on Google TV based platforms and such? - Neumahn - 2012-07-02 VLC Beta has been released, it is open source and plays everything. XBMC should be possible now. http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/02/official-vlc-app-android/ RE: Port XBMC to Android OS so that it can run on Google TV based platforms and such? - Snippo - 2012-07-02 What's the link between VLC and XBMC for Android? (i.e. why wouldn't XBMC for Android be possible before VLC got released) RE: Port XBMC to Android OS so that it can run on Google TV based platforms and such? - davilla - 2012-07-03 (2012-07-02, 16:26)Neumahn Wrote: VLC Beta has been released, it is open source and plays everything. Not everything please be more correct in making grand statements. |