Reminder that VLC is on F-Droid

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.

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

VLC is still on Twitter? I thought they would be quick to migrate to Mastodon, slightly disappointed.

And thanks OP for linking outside of Twitter.

and yet the fdroid version was updated last month!

TIL that my country has bended over the copyright trolls and blocked Archive.is, need a VPN to view...

For people lost in dessert:

• https://www.gizchina.com/2024/03/24/lack-of-updates-for-vlc-android-app-with-100-million-downloads/
• https://www.fikrikadim.com/2024/03/23/vlc-and-google-at-odds-whats-causing-the-update-block.html

So, uh, why not? The link doesn't answer that.

I don't think app stores are the problem. I think big company app stores are the problem, such as the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store. I think something like F-Droid where you can add your own app sources or Droid-ify that has a ton of sources by default you just need to enable is the way to go.

Can someone break down the thinking behind this?

With Play App Signing, Google manages and protects your app's signing key for you and uses it to sign optimized, distribution APKs that are generated from your app bundles

You can use google's play app signing. It's not mandatory.