Persisted Google Drive Login breaks with 3.3.8
I had an issue before connecting to Google Drive (this was when I first started using VLC mobile, version 3.3.7). Basically, I was unable to login to Google Drive in VLC (I got the error “Cannot open page: Safari cannot open the page because the address is invalid.”). I'm on iOS 9.3.3, which is probably the reason.
The issue is described in this post by @goga1, https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=151422&p=531488&hilit=google+drive+connect#p498595
Fortunately, his tip about downgrading to an older version (in my case 2.8.5) and logging in from that version, and then subsequently upgrading worked. This worked for version 3.3.7.
However auto-update kicked in today and upgraded me to 3.3.8. It left me logged out of Google Drive. I retried the trick with installing the old version 2.8.5, but it does not work. Attempting to directly login using 3.3.8 simply redirects me to the homepage of Google, as described here https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=142681&p=498597#p498597