{"id":649851,"date":"2013-04-01T12:53:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T16:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobilemoo.com\/?p=28716"},"modified":"2013-04-01T12:53:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T16:53:59","slug":"juice-for-roku-gives-android-an-airplay-like-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/649851","title":{"rendered":"Juice for Roku Gives Android an AirPlay-Like Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Even unabashed Android fanboys have to give Apple some credit. They created a great system with their AirPlay<\/a> sync capabilities. Play a video from certain apps on your iPad or iPhone, and you can stream them to your TV via a cheap Apple TV device. This works not only for videos you load onto your Apple device, but also many streaming services such as Netflix and HBO Go. It might be the feature I miss most after switching from iPhone to Android as my primary device.<\/p>\n

Android users needn’t fret, though. They have alternatives as well. For years Roku has offered an alternative to Apple TV. The box and software have improved significantly in recent years, too, leaving many users with a strong impression that the Roku is better than Apple TV, especially for non-iPhone and iPad users. Yet there is still that missing AirPlay equivalent. Thankfully, one Android developer has delivered something of a solution.<\/p>\n

Juice for Roku allows you to stream movies from your Android to your Roku box. All you need to do is install the Juice channel<\/a> on your Roku box and you can stream videos from your Android as long as they’re both connected to the same network. Since that’s almost always the case, Juice gives you a simple, easy way to watch video on your TV.<\/p>\n

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There are some limitations, though. For starters, Juice is not compatible with all video formats. As they tell it, you’re best off trying with MP4 files. But even then you won’t have a 100 percent success rate, since Roku doesn’t support all codecs. You can check out specific information on video compatibility here<\/a>. You can’t stream from YouTube, or any other Flash service, though you can send some web-based videos to Roku. It’s also unclear how well the video will work with 3D TVs<\/a>, though there have been no specific complaints. <\/p>\n

What Juice amounts to, at this point, is a nice alternative for Android users who have a Roku instead of Apple TV. The combination seems logical enough; people with iPhones and iPads benefit from Apple TV far more than those with Android devices. Juice has a ways to go before it can be a true Apple TV AirPlay comparison, but it’s the best we have at the moment.<\/p>\n

If you have an Android and a Roku box, you’ll want to check out the Juice for Roku Demo<\/a>, which allows you to test all the features of the full device before buying. If it’s up your alley you can buy Juice for Roku<\/a> for $2.99. <\/p>\n

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Even unabashed Android fanboys have to give Apple some credit. They created a great system with their AirPlay sync capabilities. Play a video from certain apps on your iPad or iPhone, and you can stream them to your TV via a cheap Apple TV device. This works not only for videos you load onto your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}