Android 5.0 Lollipop

[silverarrows]

I'll have to see what functionality it eventually has, but one interesting thing I noticed in the Lollipop feature list is USB out. As stated on the site "USB Audio support means you can plug USB microphones, speakers, and a myriad of other USB audio devices like amplifiers and mixers into your Android device". This should open up the door for Android-based servers.

[CatManDo]

Interesting. The new Nexus 9 tablet - released this month - has Android 5.

 

If USB Audio works as expected, the Nexus 9 could be used as a streamer connected to a USB DAC.

 

Nexus 9 ? Google

[Cebolla]

Interesting indeed. Native USB audio opens up the possibility of using UPnP/DLNA renderers like the excellent BubbleUPnP app and therefore easily network streaming music files to play to a USB DAC. A second handheld device could be used as the user interface (with a UPnP/DLNA control point app - again the BubbleUPnP does this function very well), if it's impracticle to control the playing one directly.