VLC Player For Android On The Way, Early 2011 Landing Date

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We haven’t had any serious beef with the frankly just ducky Rock Player or anything, but it’s always nice to have choices and the guys behind the much loved video codec-redundancy inducing player aim to gives us some more. Yes, VLC is slowly but surely making its way to Google’s App Store, or as they like to call it, Android Market.

Apparently, this would have gone down much sooner if Android weren’t so keen on outputting libraries using Java, which we’re sure is a reprehensible thing to do since to us it sounds just a tad too suspiciously like flooding book-lending facilities with coffee. With new changes coming to the Android NDK in December, there is little standing in the way of Android VLC replicating the success of its iOS brethren, fleeting though it may appear. And that little is only down to that lovely Android fragmentation we keep hearing about.