VLC for Windows Phone picks up a responsive layout, several new features in latest update

VLC media player for Windows Phone picked up an update to version 1.3 that includes a more responsive layout along with features such every bit the ability to browse for content stored in a folder directly from the app, updated pattern for the video histrion and much more.

The fractional changelog shared past Thomas Nigro lists the following updates:

Updated User Interface
Optimisations of XAML code, which is betwixt 50% and 130% faster (parsing and layout rendering).
LastFM scrobbling working on Windows
Browse music and videos from folders. For example if your songs are not correctly tagged, you lot can scan in VLC and « play a folder » just similar y'all would play an album.
XAML Responsive Design enhancements : nosotros're trying to use your screen as best every bit possible. On tiny screens nosotros removed the « at present playing » title which is useless, and on a big screen we give more options with extra buttons, etc.
Use of Windows 10 APIs via Reflection for setting a custom, orange window background color.
New icons, margins and alignments are more than polished (even if it'southward still work in progress)
Refresh push button in the Video Library, just similar the Music library
Search videos or albums easily.
Updated design for Video Player (still very piece of work in progress though)
Adding Semantic Zoom in the Albums view, with custom selection of ordering (by artist, by date, by anthology).
We added a dorsum button so devices like Lumia 730 or hereafter tiny tablets will exist able to go back easily.
Using the same colors as VLC for Android/iOS.

The developer mentioned that 99 percentage of the code is now shared between the Windows Phone and Windows versions of the apps, paving the manner for Windows ten SDK migration once it becomes available. Nigro notes that this update is just for the Windows Phone client, although another update dubbed 1.3.1 with more than problems fixes and improvements volition be made available for Windows, Windows Phone and Windows RT sometime next week.

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