VLC developing an Android application.
The team behind the popular open source video player VLC is busy working on an Android app, which could be released in early 2011. Lead VLC developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf told to Gigaom on Thursday that it will be “a matter of weeks” until the release of the first VLC app for Android-based mobile devices.
The VLC team has been working on an Android version for months now, but progress was initially hamstrung by the fact that Android’s multimedia output libraries are in Java. However, Google released an updated version of its Android NDK earlier this month, which makes it easier to use native code for Android apps. Kempf told me that the team has since developed two basic modules for audio and video output based on the new NDK. “They need work, but we are approaching,” he said.
Most VLC libraries have already been ported to Android. Still, Kempf cautioned that issues with specific devices could delay the release.
The progress of VLC’s Android app can be tracked on the project’s Git page. http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-android.git;a=summary
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