Live stream to android devices? shouldn't be this difficult.

Why doesn't Adobe post a simple tutorial on how to stream live video from FMS 4.5 to Android device? The developer center has a tutorial series that hasn't been updated in years. The Part 8: Streaming to Android Devices (to Come) hasn't been updated in 1.5 years. The server is useless if we can't watch video on Android devices. Surely someone out there has successfully streamed live video to an Android device and can explain how to do it?
Do we need to create an Android Air App to accomplish this?
Thanks for any help!
Dave

As an avid Wowza developer/integrator/consultant (as well as the occasional AMS work), I concur with JayCharles on all of his assertions. The transcoder is completely optional, and you can actually make your own Wowza transcoder module with FFmpeg if the Transcoder AddOn costs are really too steep for deployment.
Having said that, my current solution for live streaming to Android with an off-the-shelf (OTS) player is JW Player, and setting its fallback property to false. It looks something like this:
<div id="videoPlayer">
     
     <video src="http://media_server/app_name/_definst_/mp4:stream_ref/playlist.m3u8" controls ></video>
     <p>Video not playing? <a href="rtsp://media_server/app_name/_definst_/mp4:stream_ref">Click this link to play in an external media player.</a></p>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
jwplayer("videoPlayer").setup({
                                                            playlist: [
                                                                                sources: [
                                                                                                    file: "rtmp://media_server/appname/_definst_/mp4:streamname"
                                                                                                    file: "http://media_server/appname/_definst_/mp4:streamname/playlist.m3u8"
                                                                                title: "My Sample Live Stream"
                                                            height: 180,
                                                            primary: "html5",
                                                            autostart: false,
                                                            width: 320,
                                                            fallback: false
</script>
HTH.

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1. for the first time when I tried to run the live stream on my android app, it didnt run at all and I thought your concerns are valid for an instance :-) .
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