Will it ever work with Android?.
Can someone make it to work, i think that it is a money maker don't you think?
+1. Getting Sky Go to work by the back door, rather than wait for a tablet s compatible app. would be a bonus.
Mahaco said:
Will it ever work with Android?.
Can someone make it to work, i think that it is a money maker don't you think?
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It is almost certain that we will never see true Silverlight on Android. It's proprietary closed-source nature means Microsoft would have to be heavily involved, which they are unlikely to do.
The alternative is Moonlight, a free software version of Silverlight, developed by Novell, and released on Linux systems. An Android port of this is technically possible, but no easy feat.
It is also worth noting that this won't allow you to view Sky Go (or Netflix) content on Android, since that service uses Silverlight's built-in DRM, a function that Microsoft will not allow the Moonlight team or any third-party to see or implement outside of their control.
Well thats a bummer ...But thanks for your reply
Maby the same reason why Windows and Android are two totally different softwares.
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It is also worth noting that this won't allow you to view Sky Go (or Netflix) content on Android, since that service uses Silverlight's built-in DRM, a function that Microsoft will not allow the Moonlight team or any third-party to see or implement outside of their control.
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btw netflix runs on android in general and on tablet s specifically
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ps3taker said:
btw netflix runs on android in general and on tablet s specifically
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There you go, problem solved. (I'm from Aus, so we don't have Netflix, I just know the Web interface for Netflix apparently uses Silverlight)
There is a version of the skygo app that has been modded to run on any device. It works on my se Arc s,Archos gen 8 and galaxy tab 7 plus. It even runs with the devices rooted, although it may need to be installed before root is aquired.
Yeah as acg93 said problem with Moonlight, the open source version, is that it doesn't support Silvrrlight's DRM and therefore won't work for Lovefilm, Netflix or Sky. Best bet for these is native apps or waiting until HTML 5 video has a decent DRM solution and they adopt that.
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Does anyone have the link or can post the Netflix Beta App?
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Does anyone have the link or can post the Netflix Beta App?
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I couldn't find it when I searched the other day.
Thanks. I know it is out there, but I haven't been able to find it anywhere.
I wasn't aware of a beta, I'd love to have it as well!
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Plus 1 . Would really like the app.
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AFAIK, there isn't a netflix beta app for android. Netflix said the other day:
The same security issues that have led to piracy concerns on the Android platform have made it difficult for us to secure a common Digital Rights Management (DRM) system on these devices.
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But then they do go on to say:
We live to get Netflix on new devices, so the current lack of an Android-generic approach to quickly get to all Android devices is frustrating. But I’m happy to announce we’ll launch select Android devices that will instantly stream from Netflix early next year. We will also continue to work with the Android community, handset manufacturers, carriers, and other service providers to develop a standard, platform-wide solution that allows content providers to deliver their services to all Android-based devices.
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from the netflix blog
So if there is actually a beta app out there, it is news to me and I would love to have it as well
please post!
If there is such a thing, could someone please post it?
Well if they are planning on having netflix capable phones early next year that means they must be working on it which means there must be atleast an alpha out there. It may not be available outside netflix itself but it probably does exist which means someone outside the company will probably get their hands on it soon enough and try to make it available and usable for the masses. Jm2¢
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DRM? How much DRM is baked into my MacBook and PC that has been stopping me from ripping Netflix movies all these year? None! And they are still profitable and growing every day.
DRM is just a lame excuse for them to sign exclusive deals with manufactures and carriers.
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DRM? How much DRM is baked into my MacBook and PC that has been stopping me from ripping Netflix movies all these year? None! And they are still profitable and growing every day.
DRM is just a lame excuse for them to sign exclusive deals with manufactures and carriers.
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+1 still a netflix lover though
Windows phones have netflix.
I have the Netflix apk from a google Tv rom I was unable to install it to a Vibrant or a MT4G but maybe somebody here can put this to some use.
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DRM? How much DRM is baked into my MacBook and PC that has been stopping me from ripping Netflix movies all these year? None! And they are still profitable and growing every day.
DRM is just a lame excuse for them to sign exclusive deals with manufactures and carriers.
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Actually they do have drm. The end user doesn't see it because it downloads automatically when silverlight does. Anyone with linux will tell you, because that drm is what is making it impossible for them to stream netflix.
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Luckily I don't stream on my laptop, just from my bluray player.
If someone can get that apk to simply allow for managing instant and mail queu that would be awesome
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I have the Netflix apk from a google Tv rom I was unable to install it to a Vibrant or a MT4G but maybe somebody here can put this to some use.
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That apk doesnt actually include anything but resources like images, and layouts. The actual netflix app has to be part of the google tv system apps or something.
I have just bought one for my dad, who needs my help quite frequently for basic functions. Is there an app out there, that I can use to see and control his screen. The only simple one I have come across is webkey, but that will only work for rooted tabs. Being remote, it is going to be a real challenge to root this, so just curious if anyone can point me to a good app for remotely managing the app. Thanks a lot.
try droid vnc server beta
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try droid vnc server beta
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This one also says 'It needs a rooted device'
remote access to unrooted Android devices
Unless the stock rom has remote access backed in then you will not be able to do this without a rooted device. We use Bomgar where we work and before Android and iOS we used to remote to windows phones all the time. Now the system file on these are more locked down on stock. If you search bomgar and ios you will see that Bomgar has a patition out there for users to sign. Right now only providers can use there software to rmote to devices. Maybe this will chamge in the future but it depends onthe rom and who is selling the device.
Being a techincal security guru, I like the more locked down phones, but it does come at a cost. As these roms and devices mature more, I'm sure a dev will figure out a way to do this without compromising the security of the device.
tave a look at this:
Removed ,hope he grabed it.
I think you might want to remove that link sharpish.
awww now my curiosity has the best of me lol
To get Instagram (iPhone app) on my SGS2?
XEDGENINJAX said:
To get Instagram (iPhone app) on my SGS2?
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According to a comment on MakeUseOf.com:
In general iPhone Apps will not work on anything but iOS.
If you developed the App yourself [and have the Source Code] it depends on the tools you have used.
If you used Xcode all the way the App would be in Objective-C [which is hardly supported outside the Apple world] with Cocoa APIs [which are Apple only].
This means you would have to re-write the entire App.
If you used some other base (Java, C++) and some porting platform there might be a chance that there are tools to port it to other mobile platforms as well.
i think the answer the OP is looking for is a yes or no
as far as im aware its not available on android yet. Cant recommend an alternative as i dont really know what instagram does.
Now after reading the title I know what ure thinking 'this guy is a dumbasss' but i recently found a peice of developing software called unity and with this dev tool you can create apps in a certain code from what I understand and switch between platforms such as ios android xbox ps3 and windows mac linux from what i understand! of course when you switch youll have to change the aspect ratio and watnot.
I used to be an iphone user before i got my xperia play and i have quite a few beloved gaming apps. If i was to turn the ipa into .zip which i have done and unzipped all its contents and i then copied the contents to unity and switched platforms like i mentioned before how much work would that involved to get a simple game from ios to android. i suppose this is a question I should post on the unity site but I thought id post here first because there are many developers on xda who might have used unity software before unlike myself.
It doesn't work that way... you write the app with Unity, you can't just take someones binary blob and "convert" it with something like Unity. You would use Unity to write your own software. From scratch.
Trying to keep this as non technical as I can but basically the answer is no, it won't work. Sorry.
Could there be an iphone emulator created? Or is that not possible?
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Could there be an iphone emulator created? Or is that not possible?
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Not possible iOS is not open source otherwise developers would be pounding out iOS ports to multiple devices. Unfortuantly there is no way to even possibly emulate it at this moment. Maybe in the future they will make it open source. whoo knows
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Could there be an iphone emulator created? Or is that not possible?
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Not possible. Not for at least another 10 years maybe.
This is the best chance you have of an iOS emulator: iEmu (ignore the cancelled status)
Keep an eye on the dev's Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/cmwdotme or the project homepage: http://www.iemu.org/index.php/Main_Page
The only fully functional iOS emulator that exists is apples own closed source emulator for the Mac, Its only really for app development though.
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The only fully functional iOS emulator that exists is apples own closed source emulator for the Mac, Its only really for app development though.
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Hence why iEmu is the best chance to get iOS on Android at the moment. Although it's based on QEMU, which is a full system emulator (hardware etc) so speed would be an issue. It's also still in very early development status
I don't understand why people are asking for ****ty UI ..................you guess right
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I don't understand why people are asking for ****ty UI ..................you guess right
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They dont want the iOS interface they want the ability to use iOS apps on android. You cant deny that iOS has alot more quality apps and games than android does.
However getting an iOS emulator on android is something which we will probably never see ever.
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It doesn't work that way... you write the app with Unity, you can't just take someones binary blob and "convert" it with something like Unity. You would use Unity to write your own software. From scratch.
Trying to keep this as non technical as I can but basically the answer is no, it won't work. Sorry.
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so what is in the app is a compiled version of the sofware which someone wrote which you cannot uncompile to switch platforms and then recompile is what i think your saying correct?
With the way apple acts they would probably throw a lawsuit at you for making that port. Ha ha ha!
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Hi everyone
Just wanted to ask, what are your must have apps?
I need some ideas for new apps. The only apps (except the XKCD viewer) I could think of are listed in the core apps and I don't feel like joining these projects just yet.
So if you have any ideas or if you know some Android or iOS apps which could be ported leave a comment.
1. An IM client like Empathy
2. A Wallbase application/or anything that fetches nice HD wallpapers.
3. An application to watch anime
I had a similar question earlier, you might be able to mine something from those that answered
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2105374
The main app most people wanted was What's App, but I saw that some one else has been developing a client for it.
For the Galaxy Notes:
-full Gimp with GAP, pressure sensitive
-Mypaint, pressure sensitive
kdenlive video editor
recordmydesktop screen capture
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For the Galaxy Notes:
-full Gimp with GAP, pressure sensitive
-Mypaint, pressure sensitive
kdenlive video editor
recordmydesktop screen capture
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I think that's a bit far-fetched for now..
Hempe said:
Hi everyone
Just wanted to ask, what are your must have apps?
I need some ideas for new apps. The only apps (except the XKCD viewer) I could think of are listed in the core apps and I don't feel like joining these projects just yet.
So if you have any ideas or if you know some Android or iOS apps which could be ported leave a comment.
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a Google Voice VoIP client, like Grooveip and Spare Phone on android
Hempe said:
Hi everyone
Just wanted to ask, what are your must have apps?
I need some ideas for new apps. The only apps (except the XKCD viewer) I could think of are listed in the core apps and I don't feel like joining these projects just yet.
So if you have any ideas or if you know some Android or iOS apps which could be ported leave a comment.
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Airdroid, sound hound, projectM, photo editor, IP Cam Viewer, team viewer, Xtremlabs Speedtest, Phone Ringtone, Angry Birds, Tango Remote
I think the drawing/photo editing APP is great idea.
When i have time i'll sketch something up and make a new thread.
What about a sportstracker app? Endomondo is awesome....something like that or a client for endomondo.
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Just give us whatsapppppp t_t
I am not going to make a whats APP client! I really dislike whatsapp. (There API is closed eeg. Free for only 100k users Ort something)
Hempe said:
I am not going to make a whats APP client! I really dislike whatsapp. (There API is closed eeg. Free for only 100k users Ort something)
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Luckely somebody is already working on a client for whatsapp. Its one of the most used apps en i think very important to make people wanna use phones with UT installed on it.
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A QR reader
A QR reader sounds like a good idea as well.
Only problem the nexus7's camera is not yet working
But definitly something for the todo list: -)
A decent torrent client please!
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Hempe said:
Hi everyone
Just wanted to ask, what are your must have apps?
I need some ideas for new apps. The only apps (except the XKCD viewer) I could think of are listed in the core apps and I don't feel like joining these projects just yet.
So if you have any ideas or if you know some Android or iOS apps which could be ported leave a comment.
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It is my firm belief that we should have an APP INSTALL client that seamlessly installs apps FIRST! Then let the DEVS roll out the suggestions. What's the format anyway? not APK I would guess. I think a nice APK converter would work nicely then.
Chief out
buxtor said:
It is my firm belief that we should have an APP INSTALL client that seamlessly installs apps FIRST! Then let the DEVS roll out the suggestions. What's the format anyway? not APK I would guess. I think a nice APK converter would work nicely then.
Chief out
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- What the heck is an APK? (That's only for Android and has nothing todo with linux, yes I said it android has nothing todo with linux )
- There are many ways to install an app.
-> you can install a .deb file
-> add a ppa our use the official repos and install via consol
-> build the binarys from source....
Currently someone is working on an "app store" but this is not a priority since ubuntu touch is still in pre alpha.
P.S. I am a DEV and I need some Ideas that's why I started the thread.
Some way to access Pandora One. I listen to some 300 hours a month, so it's definitely a requirement, not a 'want'.
Statement form pandoras website
We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S., Australia and New Zealand. We will continue to work diligently to realize the vision of a truly global Pandora, but for the time being we are required to restrict its use. We are very sad to have to do this, but there is no other alternative. ....
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A Pandora client sounded like a good idea but "this" makes it rather impossible
Hope you'll find some dev's located in the us that can help you with that.
I'm personally worried about not having an app to track and control my phone in the event it's lost or stolen. An Ubuntu touch UI for Prey or something to that effect would be awesome.
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