VLC for Android: take 2

31 March 2014

New interface

This release has a new interface, available in dark or white colors. The UI is closer to an Android look and will evolve more in the future.

Video Browser

The video browser has seen a simple evolution: Video Browser Portrait Phone

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Audio Browser

The audio browser has evolved quite a bit: phoneAudioBrowser.png

We even have an equalizer: phoneEqualizer.png

And a playlist that you can edit with gestures: phoneAudioPlayer.png

Video Player

We also updated the video player: phoneVideoPlayer.png

Hardware acceleration

The second important change is the introduction of full hardware acceleration. With this release, we’ve been able to decode 4K streams on a Nexus 5 or a BayTrail tablet.

Hardware acceleration is now enabled by default on 4.3 and 4.4. You can access it on 4.1 and 4.2 in preferences.

It also features the better looking subtitles support that was added on VLC on the desktop.

Software decoding has been accelerated too.

Misc

This release supports Widi and HDMI screens; it fixes some audio bugs on 2.3 and SD cards misdetections. Have fun!

Versions

This release of VLC for Android is the 17th Beta. It’s numbered 0.9.0, since it’s the last important version before the 1.0.0 release.

It’s available everywhere, except in the US, but will be pushed as a staging release on the store.

It will be finally available in the US with our next release.

VLC for Android is compatible from Android 2.1 to 4.4 :)

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VLC for Android

Jean-Baptiste Kempf

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Comments

  1. On 13 May 13130, 3:17 by Jonny

    Looking.to git this thing going.

  2. On 11 May 11110, 12:20 by Nick

    I am sooooo looking forward. Screenshots look amazing!

  3. On 10 May 10100, 9:29 by dewlook

    Je n aime toujours pas Windows !

  4. On 8 May 8080, 6:32 by egan

    Je ne comprends pas bien pourquoi plus d’une semaine après ce post, on trouve toujours la version 0.1.4 sur Google Play.
    Quand est-ce que va arriver cette 0.9.0 ?

  5. On 7 May 7070, 3:55 by gourav jha

    please add the feature to create and save playlists

  6. On 2 May 2020, 9:15 by Gooplusplus

    What is the difference between this version and the version that will be available in the USA?

  7. On 2 May 2020, 5:20 by jstr

    Great news and good work,

    Now that VLC exists on Android, would it be possible to add a feature to stream to chromecast?

    Google opened their SDK just a couple of weeks ago.

    http://chrome.blogspot.se/2014/02/c…

  8. On 1 May 1010, 1:14 by Anonymous blog

    VLC für Android in der Pre Release Version erschienen –

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