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what happened to VLC for Android ? (infosec.pub)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A lot of the issues reported here, started showing up on my device after each OS update, but VLC didn't push any updates for over a year now... VLC is king, but what went wrong?

Edit: I think I saw a post on Mastodon saying it something to do with Google Play Store policies change, but what about the Fdroid version.. ?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

The main problem is that VLC's minimum SDK is still targeting Android 4.2, this is an issue with a ton of apps (games specially), which basically renders them incompatible/buggy with modern Android versions.

Being honest here, all app developers should target Android 8 as their minimum nowadays, as anything below that can't even browse the web anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Backwards comparability with 5 would be nice :3

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

firefox still supports android 5 so that's a lie

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I didn't say lower SDKs can't work, but there IS a higher chance that they'll fail.