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by drivebyacct2 5768 days ago
Cool. Thanks for the reply. Any details on why the Android port is taking longer or why it's so much easier to port to iOS? Maybe a VLC blog post or something?
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iOS is very similar to Mac OS X, where VLC runs already...

Android is very different from usual Linux, using a different libc and libraries than normal GNU/Linux and requires Java bindings to run...

I'm impressed that Apple has maintained such consistency across the desktop/mobile operating systems. That is an interesting advantage of iOS that I pretty rarely see mentioned. Thanks for your thoughts.