VLC for Android has been in the Google Play Store for some time, in the last six months there hasn’t been any new betas but that changes with an all new version of the VLC Player app. The user interface is all new with a modern looking Android theme, written with hardware acceleration. The video browser now has a simple user interface, the audio browser has an alphabetised layout and there is a new graphic equalizer. Plus playlist can be edit with gesture control.

This build has full hardware acceleration which means you will be able to watch very high definition files on small devices, the developers say they watched 4K streams on a Nexus 5. Other changes include Widi and HDMI screen support and fixes for SD card related bugs. This will probably be the last beta update before the release version.

The app is free from the Google Play Store.

What’s New

This is the second prerelease of VLC for Android (18th Beta)
This 0.9.0 version is major release with rewrite of the hardware decoding and a new interface available in dark or white colors.
Hardware acceleration is now enabled by default on 4.3+ and has better subtitles support. Software decoding has been accelerated too.
The audio part features now an equalizer and a playlist management.
This release supports Widi screens, fixes some audio bugs on 2.3 and SD cards misdetections.
Have fun!
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