VLC on Android

[amicpp]

hello everybody ,,
i want to run C/C++ Code on Android is that possible ?????

Thanks

[Jorsher]

lol, by VLC I thought you meant Video Lan Core media player, which is one of the things I hope will be ported to Android (with a much cleaner GUI).

Right now C++ isn't possible, but maybe once they release the API, someone will make the appropriate files to do this.

[ickyfehmleh]

lol, by VLC I thought you meant Video Lan Core media player, which is one of the things I hope will be ported to Android (with a much cleaner GUI).

Right now C++ isn't possible, but maybe once they release the API, someone will make the appropriate files to do this.

C++ support on an Android device would be limited to that specific line of devices; it would not be binary compatible with other Android devices (as not all of them are guaranteed to use the same processor). It's bad enough that Google opted to use a nonstandard VM (Dalvik), I hope no one makes matters worse by introducing binary compatibility issues.

[Jorsher]

C++ support on an Android device would be limited to that specific line of devices; it would not be binary compatible with other Android devices (as not all of them are guaranteed to use the same processor). It's bad enough that Google opted to use a nonstandard VM (Dalvik), I hope no one makes matters worse by introducing binary compatibility issues.

I understand it throws the whole cross-platform idea out the window, but for coding an entirely different OS to use that hardware, it would be useful.

[ickyfehmleh]

I understand it throws the whole cross-platform idea out the window, but for coding an entirely different OS to use that hardware, it would be useful.

... or one could make a set of reusable code that extends the Media APIs already present on Android, thusly allowing any app to play said content :P

PS: http://www.anddev.org/native_c_-und-...lator-t61.html has a working C++ 'hello world' running in the Android emulator.

[G-won]

old thread but pretty interesting nevertheless...

Wonder how close VLC is to being ported, especially with there also being Java bindings for VLC & Android being biased towards Java itself.

[felixHcat]

no native code will run on the application layer.

[cjack]

Has anything changed? Has the prospects of having a more powerful media player capable of playing a wider variety of codecs increased? Now that the new line of android phones are generally more powerful.