is there going to be option to play music direct from android devices rather than have an external source?

I think the difficult part for direct streaming from android is there are so many OSs (jelly bean, ice cream sandwich, gingerbread, and etc). And within that, there are so many variations...I'm an android user, but makes sense direct streaming only works with ios6 so far.
Bubble UPnP runs perfectly as an alternative way to stream music to SONOS, so having several Android versions is a moot point.

I think the difficult part for direct streaming from android is there are so many OSs (jelly bean, ice cream sandwich, gingerbread, and etc). And within that, there are so many variations...I'm an android user, but makes sense direct streaming only works with ios6 so far.
Bubble UPnP is a push technology, it only needs to 'push' the audio to UPnP rendering device. Sonos uses pull technology, it has to see the Android as an SMB share and 'pull' the file from it. I'm not sure what the hold up with this is, but to keep comparing it to Bubble UPnP shows a lack of knowledge of the underlying design, for the two are not comparable.

I think the difficult part for direct streaming from android is there are so many OSs (jelly bean, ice cream sandwich, gingerbread, and etc). And within that, there are so many variations...I'm an android user, but makes sense direct streaming only works with ios6 so far.
Bubble is far from a perfect alternative, unless you can explain how Bubble can stream to multiple zones. I have several much less expensive devices that can play using UPnP - Sonos promises a unified interface playing to synchonised players. How difficult would it be for Sonos to write or licence an SMB type server to embed in its controller software, which is only mounted when the controller on an android device is active.

In the last 2 hours I've learnt that Sonos doesn't support Google Music and Android streaming... This is pure fail Sonos! Also to the people who say Android is starting to dominate the market place, I think you'll find Android have had a much greater market share than iOS for a number of years (due to the number of devices). I find it a strange business strategy to actively develop for the iOS market, which also has a cheaper direct competitor in AirPlay and ignore the biggest untapped market in Android... Up your game Sonos!

In the last 2 hours I've learnt that Sonos doesn't support Google Music and Android streaming... This is pure fail Sonos! Also to the people who say Android is starting to dominate the market place, I think you'll find Android have had a much greater market share than iOS for a number of years (due to the number of devices). I find it a strange business strategy to actively develop for the iOS market, which also has a cheaper direct competitor in AirPlay and ignore the biggest untapped market in Android... Up your game Sonos!
Actually, Sonos has implemented a few things on Android that are not available on iOS, like widgets, alerts, and direct connection to Sonosnet. So it is not as if they are ignoring Android in order to "actively develop" for iOS. It seems it is more a limitation in developers tools/functionality than a bias towards either OS.

Shame on you SONOS! How could you forget the millions of Android users. Please work on an uprgraded application that would let you stream music from any Android device asap. I was thinking of buying more components to increase my SONOS system but I will post.po.ne these plans until further notice

Hello everyone, This topic is now marked as Planned. Sonos is currently developing a direct wireless playback feature for Android similar to iTunes Wireless Playback for iOS. As with all our new features, we will not have a public timeframe for the release until it's fully ready. Thank you for your support.

awesome news! thank you

Happy to hear this news. I can't wait!

Nice, so this summer we will be able to stream music from our Android devices. Good to see.