Phones Huawei phones can not download VLC from the Play Store

July 28, 2018

Do you have a Huawei phone and, from the beginning, you find that it is impossible to install VLC Player from the Google Play Store? If impossible is that neither the renowned media player can be found in the search results of the Android application store. Why not VLC in Play Store on Huawei phones?

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This is not a mistake or you do not know how to search in the Android App Store. Simply VLC has made the decision to include Huawei in its blacklist of manufacturers, so videoLAN applications, responsible for VLC, will not be compatible with Huawei phones. The reason is none other than the features to save the battery present in the Chinese manufacturer's phones, tools that do not like VLC makers, as shown in the following tweet informing the disappearance of VLC Player's Google Play Store for All Huawei mobiles.

A solution implemented by Huawei to save the battery power of its phones is to completely eliminate all the processes that applications continue to operate in the background. If you close all running applications, you close them completely. In this way, if a player makes a sound, the reproduction is completely canceled. The smooth operation of VLC is based on the fact that the application remains open in the background and is one of the reasons why VideoLAN uses to remove the Google Store app for smartphones from the Chinese brand.

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