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Greetings all,
As a massive community of Android overlords, this seemed like a good place to post this random thought.
As everyone knows, Netflix does not support linux. While it's been leaked that Chrome OS will provide netflix compatability, that development thread has since been locked, and somehow I am dubious about when or if this will ever materialize.
In just the past few days, Netflix announced an app for certain android phones, which one of your number promptly hacked and made available for most android phones. I think it was "ftep", and bravo to you, dude.
The nearest solution for netflix on Android is to run WinXP in a virtual machine - alot of overhead for a simple video player. But now that there is an app for android, I immediately thought - Android x86. If the player app could run there, it might be possible set up an Ax86 virtual machine to watch netflix in Linux, without the massive overhead of an XP VM.
I wish I had the technical know-how to take this on. I did install VMware and got an Ax86 virtual machine running 2.2, but none of the netflix apps, modded or original, would install. That's where I hit a brick wall.
So just an idea. Any takers?
Thanks!
TM
I actually was thinking the same thing a few minutes ago. Was searching and found this post. I'm working on it right now, will get back to you as soon as I make any (if any) progress.
Any updates? Most interested!
Did anything ever come of this? Apparently, running an ARM Android emulator for the Netflix app won't play video. I was hoping Ax86 would do the trick, but I haven't been able to find anyone who's pulled it off just yet.
BUUUUUUMP!!!
Don't know if this helps but AFAIK the netflix app uses native ARM code and therefore won't run on AndroidX86. I have an Android-X86 tablet now and I know the original won't run.
src: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/android-x86/MoQtVu2Usew
Hope this helps
So Canonical has demonstrated a prototype version of an environment for Ubuntu, based on the Xorg X Window environment, in which Android Apps can be run. For many folks that like to experiment and play around, for instance with the installation of Android to a computer, this is pretty exciting. After the project is optimized a bit more, I guess, the source code for the emulator will be released. Anyways what I'm getting at is that the article points out that a main purpose in this is to provide users the option to run Android programs in their current Ubuntu environment instead of a full-on Android installation to their machine. Seeing as the Android OS version for computers has a long ways to go before people can really install it and have full functionality without having to do a lot of work themselves, this has my hopes high. Here is the full article so you can stop listening to me babble and see what the guys at desktoplinux had to give us:
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7172257171.html
I know this is an old article, but I figured many people had never seen this and could use the bit of info.
Updates for Android devices are always rolled by the gadget manufacturer, so every time Google introduces a new update we have to wait till the manufacturer of the device decides to roll it out, this obviously takes a lot of time and puts Android at a disadvantage against Apple and Microsoft.
For a Windows device irrespective of the manufacturer if Microsoft rolls out an update all can avail of that update through windows update. Android also being an open platform like Windows should be able to do the same.
If I have a software CD of Windows 7 I can install the software in any manufacturers PC and use it. I may just need to do some additional driver installation if required.
Why can't Android develop their platform to function in a similar manner so that once a new version of Android is released I can install it it any device and o fcourse put in the specific drivers to make it work if required.
With the approach of Microsoft looking very prominent now for both Smartphones and Tablets, this may just be a warning bell for Android, I hope they have their eyes and ears open.
Would be nice to know the views of others. As an Android user do you feel this would be a good step for Google?
kaus1108 said:
I may just need to do some additional driver installation if required.
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The above is the key sentence in your post. The problem is that without the correct hardware drivers for your specific phone the OS may not be able to boot at all and will certainly have limited functionality - just look at the issues there are with trying to run leaded ICS / JB ROMs on phones that don't have an official version of the ROM available with the correct drivers yet.
The reason that Microsoft is able to push out a new OS and have it (mostly) work on any manufacturers PC, with any hardware, is that all the hardware manufacturers are given alpha/beta copies of Windows to test their hardware on and to allow them to build the drivers well in advance of the OS being released by the guys in Redmond.
Google don't do that. They release the OS immediately they have hardware support and compatibility for their devices - and let everybody else deal with the aftermath
windows is the opposite from open platform!
android is an open platform.
the phone makers are free to use android as they wish, they can decide if to upgrade or not.
google only realeses the source code.
XDA is there for providing the latest update.
My phone was supported by Samsung till Gingerbread. But I got jelly bean from XDA devs just after a week after the source code release.
But it does have some bugs which cannot be solved without Samsung's help.
But if you wanted the fastest OEM updates, buy a Nexus.
But 50% of the people are normal users who do not care about updates and new android versions.
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SimonTS said:
The above is the key sentence in your post. The problem is that without the correct hardware drivers for your specific phone the OS may not be able to boot at all and will certainly have limited functionality - just look at the issues there are with trying to run leaded ICS / JB ROMs on phones that don't have an official version of the ROM available with the correct drivers yet.
The reason that Microsoft is able to push out a new OS and have it (mostly) work on any manufacturers PC, with any hardware, is that all the hardware manufacturers are given alpha/beta copies of Windows to test their hardware on and to allow them to build the drivers well in advance of the OS being released by the guys in Redmond.
Google don't do that. They release the OS immediately they have hardware support and compatibility for their devices - and let everybody else deal with the aftermath
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Thank you for the response and I do agree with what you say and the key to it is that there are certain things that Microsoft do and Google don't and how it is going to impact users in the future.
I remember when I moved from Windows Vista to Windows 7 all the Vista drivers were functioning allright after installing Windows 7 and I have also faced situations where I did not have certain drivers but the PC still functioned on generic drivers provided in the Windows software.
Don't you feel it would be much better if Google just released a Jelly Bean OS and left it to us to install it and I am sure that based on devices already in the market those drivers can always be included in the OS and each phone would pick its own based on its hardware. Only the new devices would need new ones which Google may not be able to provide. If this were true today I would be installing JB in my Galaxy S3 and not have to wait for Sammy.
djbijo said:
windows is the opposite from open platform!
android is an open platform.
the phone makers are free to use android as they wish, they can decide if to upgrade or not.
google only realeses the source code.
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No, Windows is quite open. Apple is the closed one.
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When windows phone 8 is released, will the new apps released be available for specifically WP8 or will they also be compatible with WP7.8?
AkashtheBruh said:
When windows phone 8 is released, will the new apps released be available for specifically WP8 or will they also be compatible with WP7.8?
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I guess it will depend of the developer.
It depends on how they are built (what version of the runtime they target). Just as today, you can build an app for WP7.1 (or 7.5 if you prefer, a.k.a. Mango) and it will only run on Mango or later... or you can build an app with the 7.0 SDK (if you don't mind the limited APIs available) and it will run on all WP7 devices regardless of version. In the future, devs will have the option to target WP7+, or WP8 only. Obviously, the new APIs that are coming with WP8 will only be usable by WP8-exclusive apps.
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It depends on how they are built (what version of the runtime they target). Just as today, you can build an app for WP7.1 (or 7.5 if you prefer, a.k.a. Mango) and it will only run on Mango or later... or you can build an app with the 7.0 SDK (if you don't mind the limited APIs available) and it will run on all WP7 devices regardless of version. In the future, devs will have the option to target WP7+, or WP8 only. Obviously, the new APIs that are coming with WP8 will only be usable by WP8-exclusive apps.
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ahh I understand, Well in your opinion, do you think that the windows phone 7.8 apps will be made or will they just be shunned altogether?
Given the way that Microsoft is being tight-fisted with the WP8 SDK, you're definitely still going to be getting almost all WP7 apps for the next month or three. After that... harder to say. There are still WP7.x devices being launched, so developers who wnat the maximum audience will continue to use the older SDK, but a lot of people are going to be lured by the power of those new APIs. XNA may make it easy to develop games, but people who want maximum performance and real DirectX access are going to be (of necessity, aside from homebrew) using the WP8 SDK.
Ever since the release of android, there's a boost in the requirements of people and the development is also upto the mark. ever year google is releasing its new api level of android. Now,the time came for us to discuss about the furthur api. Should google stop working on releasing a new api level greater than android p? Even Microsoft had stopped at windows 10 and started making windows 10 as most secure rather than working on new os like windows 11 or something....
Should google also start working on security and performance issues rather than working on a new api level amdroid?
Let me know. Thanks to the developers in advance :laugh:
sri_chandu said:
Ever since the release of android, there's a boost in the requirements of people and the development is also upto the mark. ever year google is releasing its new api level of android. Now,the time came for us to discuss about the furthur api. Should google stop working on releasing a new api level greater than android p? Even Microsoft had stopped at windows 10 and started making windows 10 as most secure rather than working on new os like windows 11 or something....
Should google also start working on security and performance issues rather than working on a new api level amdroid?
Let me know. Thanks to the developers in advance :laugh:
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Windows is still doing feature updates, just stop the name game, and charging for major updates.
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After releasing an android api,within less than a year,new api level is being introduced and people just go behind the latest android version, leaving their existing device (even if the device is a flag ship) just only for the one reason...."latest android" ?
sri_chandu said:
After releasing an android api,within less than a year,new api level is being introduced and people just go behind the latest android version, leaving their existing device (even if the device is a flag ship) just only for the one reason...."latest android" ?
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Issue is with manufacturers not wanting to implement updates.
Google is trying to mitigate that with treble, bypassing the manufacturers and updating the devices directly.
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