SpenZerX Wrote:My favorite is MovieBrowser. But actually MovieBrowser and Mizuu are both not ready for daily use. They are both slow when shares contain more then 100 movies. Also i think both tools need Android 3 or higher. I can't install both on my new Galaxy Note.
Hi. Love my Android device and XBMC...wanted the two to live in harmony for a while...here's the news from a n00b/non-dev perspective. 1) There are a variety of chipsets used in android phones, so it's kinda difficult to have an XBMC port for each. For instance, my phone is a Evo 4g on an ARM v7 chipset...but then you have the tegra 2's, 3's, whatever, it's difficult. 2) So, now, we're talking about recoding the entire project to an .apk. And, as mentioned before, that's borderline insane with the shift to the cloud...although, IMHO, consumers will still want hard copies of some media just for the piece of mind. Especially hard to find or user produced media. 3) I have found decent alternatives to streaming/downloading content to my device.
- Vplayer simple to the point and plays almost anything
- EZ Stream TV - nice UI and great support follow them on Twitter
- Mega Stream - Free way to watch megaupload/video links on Android (Go to ice films via your favorite browser, copy and paste the link and boom! Stream away.)
- Just saw Navi-X has been half assed ported to Android too...I say half assed because Navi-X has always been free and this guy wants to charge for something he had no part in creating and you can't even stream with his $2 app...only download. But, still a good effort.
As a community of XBMC and Android user, we could certainly find a way to come together to make it a more seamless project. Utilizing technologies found in each of the above mentioned .apks would be a huge step in the right direction. All and all, finding similar functionality in other apps and building an all new all inclusive media center inspired by XBMC may be a better alternative. I don't have much expirence, but, with ICS (Android 4.0) being ported to any phone that ever ran GB (2.3.+) I think it'd be a great time to try and build a fantastic Android media center. Be it XBMC or not...props to XBMC for being so cutting edge and inspiring such an undertaking. I'm down to make this my new pet project, even though I have no idea where to start. Maybe we should try to contact some of the devs that created the above mentioned .apks. If there's anything I've learned from using XBMC, it's that within this community anything is possible.
Maybe setting up a structure across the web would be good. A facebook, twitter, XDA thread, XBMC thread, other forums and link everyone up and get this going. Eventually a Git, right? That's where I'd start...organize the project. I can do that. Who's interested?
EDIT: If the drivers are available to run Linux via CHROOT, would it be possible to run XBMC on a small Ubuntu build via the same method?
let's find out...
- that I may be willing to part with if it will get Android developmen started.
