Moonlight on Android

http://jeffreystedfast.blogspot.com/2011/04/moonlight-on-android.html

by jstedfast • 15 years ago

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SingAlong• 15 years ago

For those of you (like me) who didn't know about Moonlight, it's an opensource implementation of Silverlight http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight

DjDarkman4• 15 years ago

I fail to see the point to this, Silverlight was deprecated by Microsoft in favor of HTML5, end of story.

bad_user2• 15 years ago

So apps on Windows Phone 7 are going to be built with HTML5?

contextfree• 15 years ago

Why not? IE9 mobile even has new default styling to make websites better match the WP aesthetic.

DjDarkman4• 15 years ago

So apps for WP7 are going to be built with Moonlight?

jstedfast4• 15 years ago

Microsoft announced Silverlight 5 beta at Mix11, so not as dead as you'd like to think it seems.

Silverlight is still also very heavily used for intranet apps (which is where http://www.telerik.com/ makes their money on Silverlight controls)

kenjackson• 15 years ago

Do you work for Telerik? Fan of their stuff.

DjDarkman4• 15 years ago

I didn't say dead, I said deprecated.

gautaml• 15 years ago

HTML5: Polluting the mind of the commoner, making them believe it's the hottest shit since slice bread and that everything else is inferior.

jrockway• 15 years ago

Yeah, HTML5 doesn't even cost money to develop!

DjDarkman4• 15 years ago

Silverlight: Polluting the mind of the commoner, making them believe it's the hottest shit since slice bread and that everything else is inferior. Then realizing that this cross-microsoft-platform wonder is just a bad flash imitation, then deprecating it saying that HTML5 is better.

nuclear_eclipse• 15 years ago

I wonder whether this would allow Netflix to more easily bring their streaming video service to Android...

zacharypinter• 15 years ago

I don't believe the Moonlight guys support DRM, so it's the same situation as Netflix on Linux.

jstedfast4• 15 years ago

Well, yes and no. From what I understand, Microsoft has been willing in the past to license their PlayReady DRM for use in embedded devices (which phones are). Will they be willing to license for Moonlight on Android? Who knows, but it's not a for-sure "no" yet. Of course, it's also not a "yes" either ;-)

AFAIK, we haven't even talked to them about it yet... this was kind of a last-minute hack for Mix11.

aplusbi2• 15 years ago

Probably not. Moonlight doesn't have the DRM necessary (and won't - MS has no intention of releasing it on Linux) and Netflix doesn't use Silverlight/MS DRM on phones anyway (AFAIK).

From what I understand, on the iPhone/iPad Netflix uses the DRM built into the device. Since Android phones are built by several different manufacturers there is no uniformity in hardware DRM (and some phones don't have any at all). I imagine that it's easier to get content providers to agree to use hardware DRM than software DRM which further complicates the issue.

jstedfast4• 15 years ago

Well, if that's the case (Netflix taking advantage of the DRM built into the phones), then there's no reason Moonlight for Android can't take advantage of that, too.

Also, Microsoft has licensed their DRM for Linux on embedded devices in the past.

tzs• 15 years ago

> MS has no intention of releasing it on Linux

More likely it is the content owners who have no intention of licensing the DRM for Linux.

Rondrak• 15 years ago

Take a look at http://forums.silverlight.net/forums/t/94992.aspx.

After the original post, most of them are "yeah right on!", or +1 type posts, until about 1/6 of the way down when streamOG begins chiming in. His posts get increasingly in depth and informative on the issue as the thread continues.

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