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scientia
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May 10, 2021
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When will Android be supported?

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Hi! I would really love to join the Sonos ecosystem, but I feel like Android is only rudimentarily supported, Sonos advertises Trueplay and AirPlay like two of the main features - but doesn’t provide a similar feature set for Android. Are there any plans to support Android fully in the future?

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    Sonos does fully support Android.  Airplay and Trueplay are impossible on Android, and Android devices do everything else that can be done with iOS.  The Android app can also play tracks stored on the phone.

     

    You can surely build and think of equivalent features for Android, they might, however, require some additional work or additional investments? That would be okay though. But I don’t feel like they fully support Android or take it seriously. I’ve gone through the landing page of some products, and the list of key features, only to realize that these things are tallied for iOS and don’t work with Android. Maybe it’s also partly just their marketing that is at fault, but it makes me feel there is no feature parity.

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    melvimbe
    melvimbe
    May 10, 2021

    Airplay for Android is an Apple/Google issue as has been previously stated. Why no Trueplay for Android was answered in 2017 in the link below. So…what exactly can’t you do with Sonos on Android that is due to Sonos just refusing to integrate on Android devices?
     

     

    It’s not specifically about AirPlay. I’m just saying Sonos should provide a similar feature for Android. Same with Trueplay - for whatever reason they currently don’t have it, they should provide an actual solution rather than “buy or borrow an iPhone”? Even if that means that Android users have to buy an external mic.

     

    It’s not ‘for whatever reason’, there are very specific reasons why android doesn’t support airplay and trueplay.  Even if Sonos could build their own version of airplay through Sonos, why would they?  They designed their speakers to stream audio from services and local libraries directly, which is a much better solution than airplay.

    As far as buying an external mic, it’s a idea that’s been mention before, lately with the idea of using the mic on the Sonos Roam for this purpose.  I’m not sure why it hasn’t been done yet.  Could be that cost and potential price don’t workout for the projected market, or Sonos has some other plan.

    Danny
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