VideoLAN @videolan App Stores were a mistake. Currently, we cannot update VLC on Windows Store, and we cannot update VLC on Android Play Store, without reducing security or dropping a lot of users… For now, iOS App Store still allows us to ship for iOS9, but until when?

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From their Twitter:

If you wonder why we can’t update the VLC on Android version, it’s because Google refuses to let us update:

  • either we give them our private signing keys,
  • or we drop support for Android TV before API-30, and all our users on TV API<30 can’t get fixes.

It’s not much, just dozens of millions of people use Android TV before Android-11…

Maybe we should tell users to buy new TVs? #electronicWaste

I can’t speak to why they’re not updating on FDroid but seeing as how it’s much more difficult to get people to use FDroid on Android TV, I don’t think it will help them with that issue anyway.

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I didn’t know F-droid was on Android TV, but it will be on mine pretty soon.

Google requiring their private signing key is insane, and goes completely against the concept of private/public keys.

Why is Google asking for this?

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