Improve the build recepie for Android
https://forum.f-droid.org/t/where-is-the-vlc-app/108/25
Because it’s difficult to build. Fdroid team is not the team behind VLC development. Why don’t you grab a dev of VLC and ask him to come on this forum to help Fdroid team?
https://forum.f-droid.org/t/where-is-the-vlc-app/108/26
VLC build instructions look simple and straightforward until you start following them. Even minor differences in build environment can cause issues (like automake 1.15 vs 1.15.1).
Sometimes they forget to update their source code.
For example, VLC 2.5.2 requires libvlc to be built from commit vlc@1c021648. But the version they distribute was built with libvlc from vlc@ef7c26f5 (you can get this from logcat, grep “core libvlc: revision”). BTW, this mismatch can be the reason why F-Droid’s VLC 2.5.2 crashes.
Official 2.5.3 uses libvlc built from cbfa98bd98, which has not been published at all.
Hopefully those examples explain why we cannot build VLC.