XBMC on Andriod

Sat, Aug 11, 2012

XMBC announced this week that they are working with Ouya. This comes shortly after their announcement that they’re going to release their software for the Android, so it’s not surprising. However, it’s great news in that XBMC is now working with at least two hardware companies to bring their software to tiny, low powered, inexpensive media center devices.

I’m running XBMC on a jailbroken Apple TV 2, and while it works great, there are many rough edges. Apple doesn’t want XBMC running on their hardware, and users have to jailbreak the device to get it installed. It’s not the easiest thing for everyone to do, and it causes issues, especially when it comes time for iOS updates.

Having companies producing hardware specifically to run XBMC will get rid of the problems associated with jailbreaking, and make the XBMC experience awesome. The second XBMC is stable (and assuming it works with my Logitech Harmony remote), I’ll be buying one of these Android home theater devices to replace my jailbroken Apple TV 2.