VLC For Android May Arrive In Early 2011

Posted by timothy on Saturday December 25, 2010 @08:11AM from the but-that's-next-year dept.

dkd903 writes "The development of an Android client for VLC has been going on for months now, but it has been slowed down by the fact that Android's multimedia output libraries are in Java. VLC itself is based on C and so translating them to Java is difficult and takes time. With the newer Android NDK, however, using native codes for Android apps has been becoming easier. So, the VLC developers have developed two basic modules for audio and video output based on the new NDK and most of the VLC libraries have been ported to Android."

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Re:Android does have a C/C++ by ModernGeek · 2010-12-25 10:35 · Score: 1, Redundant

"Using native codes"

Sounds like the author of this article isn't an actual programmer.
Also, I don't think that porting VLC to android would be the difficult or meaningful part, it's all about the codecs.
A direct port to Android would mean for a horrible interface, and a rewrite of the interface would just mean creating something new and calling it "VLC".

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