VideoLAN @videolan App Stores were a mistake. Currently, we cannot update VLC on Windows Store, and we cannot update VLC on Android Play Store, without reducing security or dropping a lot of users… For now, iOS App Store still allows us to ship for iOS9, but until when?
Fdroid is the obvious answer me thinks. Anyway love you guys/gals at videolan still haven’t come across a piece of software that destroys every other in its field in every aspect.
I dont think that works for windows?
On Windows you should be downloading from the website.
Thats not secure. Isn’t the pount of the Windows Store that packages are signed by developers and verified when downloaded?
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You can pay a one time fee if $25 to get Microsoft to sign your app on the Microsoft store, or you can pay $400+ per year to buy your own certificate. So Microsoft Store is sadly the cheap way to release apps on Windows. (Without users getting scary warnings from Windows and AV about installing unsigned aoftware)
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You don’t have to use the visual studio to package in MSIX
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Dear VLC, in your download section there is the F-Droid app store option which I consider a good thing. p.s. Why are you still posting on Twitter ??? On your website I see two buttons Facebook and Twitter. Time for a change ?
By the way, archive.is and archive.ph are Tor unfriendly. Another link : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39798565
Reminder that VLC is on F-Droid
They’ve not updated it there either though. It seems to be less of a case of can’t update Android and more of a case of won’t update Android
What exactly is the issue preventing them from updating the Android version?
Also, if that’s the case, it sounds like “App stores were a mistake” is a bit misleading, since the particular app store isnt the problem.
From their Twitter:
If you wonder why we can’t update the VLC on Android version, it’s because Google refuses to let us update:
- either we give them our private signing keys,
- or we drop support for Android TV before API-30, and all our users on TV API<30 can’t get fixes.
It’s not much, just dozens of millions of people use Android TV before Android-11…
Maybe we should tell users to buy new TVs? #electronicWaste
I can’t speak to why they’re not updating on FDroid but seeing as how it’s much more difficult to get people to use FDroid on Android TV, I don’t think it will help them with that issue anyway.
I didn’t know F-droid was on Android TV, but it will be on mine pretty soon.
i love how google is not even trying to hide the fact that they are engaging in obvious extortion
“give us the keys to all your secrets so that we can secretly inject NSA malware, or be setenced to obscurity”
anyway this is what we get when we trust gargantuan multi billion corpos not to royally fuck us over
Reading this I remembered that stupid apple is now forced to let us sideload on iphones. I just kicked off the ios update to enable it.
