VLC Beta is now available for Android

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11 points·vineetdhanawat··11 comments

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.

> 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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."

Nearly two years after the iOS version…

nevertheless its a start

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