In a Friday blog post, Netflix confirmed that it is currently working on an instant streaming service that will allow users of Android handsets to stream content from their instant queue straight from their phones. The service will become available sometime next year.

However, noting that the service will initially not be available on all Android handsets, Greg Peters, of Netflix product development, said in the blog post that the incomplete rollout of the service results from the fact that there is no standardized way to ensure security and digital rights management across the Android handsets.

About Netflix having to work separately with individual handset makers to build in Digital Rights Management (DRM), Peters elaborated the rollout ill not be a complete one because of “the lack of a generic and complete platform security and content protection mechanism available for Android. The same security issues that have led to piracy concerns on the Android platform have made it difficult for us (Netflix) to secure a common Digital Rights Management (DRM) system on these (Android) devices.”

Peters also said that, in Netflix’s opinion, it is better to provide the instant streaming service to at least some Android users rather than not providing the capability at all. Peters further added that Netflix is persistently working with Android developers, carriers, and others, for the development of a standard, platform-wide solution to the DRM issue.