WE NEED an Android Port....

Ned Scott Wrote:ATV2's hardware for the price is painfully hard to beat. The iPad's price is more often on the lower end for tablets with the same features, including Android ones.

I like Android, and I can't wait for an Android version of XBMC, but please kindly pull your head out of your rump.

To everyone, the work being done for iOS is work that affects all ARM-powered devices, including Android. Everything from supporting the ARM processor, Open GLES, multitouch support, the tons and tons of optimization, and a lot of ther techincal details that are over my head, all benefit future projects. These ARM and embedded systems appear to be the wave of the future for media centers, and XBMC will be there.

Excuse me mate! but before you and others shoot off about the price of ATV2 which I'm fully aware of and tell me to get my head outa my rump - this thread was regarding tablets.

iPads maybe cheap in the US but its a £400 - £500 device in the UK minus the hardware to connect anything to it including the TV.. maybe chick feed to you but not me and I'm not really up for joining the borg.

Spiff kindly made me aware of his stance so there's no need for belittling comments or rudeness.

GreenEyez Wrote:Apps for iOS are written in Objective-C as far as i know, so there was an amount of porting to be done, but Obj-C is a lot more similar to c/c++ than Java is.

Bogus If you look close at how XBMC for Mac works, it also starts up in obj-c and xbmc's c/c++ gets 'wrapped' around that. Once the startup wrapping happends, iOS and OSX are pretty much the same except for GL vs GLES handling.

Android is Java, very different beast than doing obj-c/c++/c.

DejaVu Wrote:I too dreamt of XBMC for Android and totally understand the Technical Issues.

Hence why I have come up with an excellent alternative solution and even works over the internet!

I call this 'Initiative!'
Windows 7 PC at home running XBMC.
Android tablet and Phone both running Splashtop Remote.

Login using Googlemail remotely - instantly stream everything perfectly in sync over the internet to my Android devices. Problem solved.

I even used it when I was abroad!
If you plan on doing this, I suggest using one of the Touch Screen skins being developed.

Will play everything as the Home PC is doing all the work!

Until miracles happen, perfect solution. [SOLVED] (for now!)

I got all excited and then noticed no linux support for the desktop app. Booo...

Geeba Wrote:Excuse me mate! but before you and others shoot off about the price of ATV2 which I'm fully aware of and tell me to get my head outa my rump - this thread was regarding tablets.

iPads maybe cheap in the US but its a £400 - £500 device in the UK minus the hardware to connect anything to it including the TV.. maybe chick feed to you but not me and I'm not really up for joining the borg.

Spiff kindly made me aware of his stance so there's no need for belittling comments or rudeness.

There's a price increase compared to the US for any comparable tablet, so your point is moot. I asked you to pull your head out of your rump because you're just using generic Apple hater reasons to dis the hard work of our iOS and ARM developers. A waste of time? Joining the Borg? Insult me all you want, but I will not tolerate you (or anyone else) insulting the XBMC devs and/or the other users. Keep the OS wars out of the forums.

Wow.......

Some of you guys are pathetic. I was merely posting about something that I thought would be pretty cool to have. Some of you guys are entirely too quick to post about .....why this.....and why that.....and "get to coding yourself"...

......face palm.......

dsimages Wrote:Wow.......

Some of you guys are pathetic. I was merely posting about something that I thought would be pretty cool to have. Some of you guys are entirely too quick to post about .....why this.....and why that.....and "get to coding yourself"...

......face palm.......

+1 So hard.

dsimages Wrote:Wow.......

Some of you guys are pathetic. I was merely posting about something that I thought would be pretty cool to have. Some of you guys are entirely too quick to post about .....why this.....and why that.....and "get to coding yourself"...

......face palm.......

Well if this is one of those threads.

I want a BMW M3. I want a pony. I want a Unicorn. I also want to win the lottery.

darkscout Wrote:Well if this is one of those threads.

I want a BMW M3. I want a pony. I want a Unicorn. I also want to win the lottery.

Your sarcastic comments prove my previous post.

When you're the 10th billion user to suggest the same thing then this is what you get. Maybe you didn't know it was requested/demanded/begged for so often, and that's okay. But then understand the frustration people get when they are hounded about the same thing all the time. Instead you called people (including XBMC devs) pathetic. Put that into perspective.

Yup Ned, you make a valid point. Every "community" should have senior members handing out condescending and somewhat insulting answers whenever a question gets asked more than once.
I didn't know what the situation was with Android and this thread somehow managed to inform. As someone who tries to read the forums frequently I also got a reminder on why I don't start threads.