VLC Beta is now available for Android

BjornW 13 years ago |

Mhh why do a lot of Android apps need 'READ PHONE STATUS AND IDENTITY' permission? Seems unnecessary and makes me not want to use your app.

pooriaazimi 13 years ago | |

> READ PHONE STATE AND IDENTITY

> Allows the app to access the phone features of the device. An app with this permission can determine the phone number and serial number of this phone, whether a call is active, the number that call is connected to and the like.

?!! It also requires READ SENSITIVE LOG DATA.

pooriaazimi 13 years ago | | |

On second thought: maybe Android's permissions are broken and too generic. An app has a legit reason to want to know whether a call is active (to shut off playback), but the permission gives the app other abilities that they can abuse, like device serial number and phone number.

daemin 13 years ago | | |

I have not developed for Android yet, but I would imagine they need said permissions in order to stop playing the audio/video when a phonecall is in progress.

I would imagine that it's a useful feature, and that many more people would complain if it was absent.

bryanlarsen 13 years ago |

"This item cannot be installed in your device's country." I'm in Canada.

mikeevans 13 years ago | |

Same, on all my devices. And I'm in the US.

vineetdhanawat 13 years ago | | |

Irony. Available in India but not in US/Canada.

Confirmed on twitter https://twitter.com/videolan/statuses/219753251598385154

polshaw 13 years ago |

I've been using builds of this for months, so fair to say it should be pretty stable now.

vineetdhanawat 13 years ago | |

It worked good for me (HTC Desire S)

But this is what app says "it might kill your kitten, destroy your house and start the mayan apocalypse."

Ecco 13 years ago |

Nearly two years after the iOS version…

vineetdhanawat 13 years ago | |

nevertheless its a start