Netflix Launches Android App

Netflix has released their Android app on Thursday, the application is now available in Android market, everyone can go and grab the application right away! But hang on, unfortunately there is a bad news for some users, the first version of Netflix is not supported for all devices, only the devices that currently have the requisite playback support will be able to use Netflix. Users who are in the list of helplessness does not have to disheart as the company said that they will add the support for the rest of device over the time and will be available through an update!


Netflix was already available on iOS and Windows Mobile so why did it took so long to come on this platform? “Because the platform has evolved so rapidly, there are some significant challenges associated with developing a streaming video application for this ecosystem,” product team member Roma De said. “One of these challenges is the lack of standard streaming playback features that the Netflix application can use to gain penetration across all available Android phones. In the absence of standardization, we have to test each individual handset and launch only on those that can support playback.”
As far as the support is concerned Netflix for Android currently supports HTC Incredible, Nexus One, and EVO 4G with Android 2.2 and Nexus S and Nexus One with Android 2.3 respectively.