Android natively supports various video codecs including MPEG-4 SP, H.264 AVC, and H.263. However, your stock Android video player app might not run HEVC files and several other formats if it's old.

While plenty of fantastic streaming services exist, everyone knows the pain of your favorite movie suddenly becoming unavailable. Owning your media solves this problem, but you'll need to choose a ...

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MoboPlayer is a new video player for Google Android, and it may just be the most impressive multimedia app I’ve seen for the platform. The app supports most video formats including MP4, MOV, and MKV, ...

Google rolled out a new and improved video player for Google Drive on desktop last year. The company could soon bring this Material Design 3 video player to the Google Drive app for Android. Google ...

Some Android users report seeing a new video player UI in the YouTube app. YouTube’s latest player UI relocates a lot of buttons and shows more information about the video. It also adds a gesture that ...

YouTube tends to overhaul its website and mobile apps component-by-component. The latest example of this is a big redesign, especially in fullscreen mode, of the video player in YouTube for Android.

YouTube is rolling out a new interface for its mobile app’s full-screen player, which should make it easier to like or dislike a video (privately, of course), view ...

Google Drive has rolled out a pair of redesigns to the Android app that modernizes the file upload experience and video player. On Android (and iOS), the Google Drive app now offers “more fine grained ...