The XBMCAndroid team has announced a "fully functional" release version of XBMC for Android devices.

This particular iteration of XBMC has been customized to offer hardware accelerated video decoding, which the original version of XBMC doesn't natively support. That new feature means users can hook up their Android device to an external video player.

XBMC started out as a media center application for the first-generation Xbox game console. As the popularity of set-top boxes grew, the application became more widely used and—because of its open source nature—gained a lot of popularity. Services like Plex Media and Boxee all make use of XBMC, and now any Android device can, too.

If you'd like to check out XBMC for Android yourself, you can follow the step-by-step instructions for this "user-friendly" release at the website.