This is great news for people wanting to play their own content on the Xbox One. The PC version will be available early May with a closed beta before then.Īs the app is UWP app this means VLC will finally come to the Xbox One later this month when the Xbox opens up to 3 rd party developers.

The mobile version will only work on the Redstone version of Windows 10 Mobile due to limitations of background audio APIs with the TH2 release of Windows 10 Mobile so if you are stuck on TH2 then you will have to stick with the Windows Phone version. For Windows 10 Mobile the first public beta will be next week with an official release in early May.

Just as Microsoft and Sony have enabled developers to easily self-publish games in this console generation, UWP has the potential to open up app publishing on the Xbox One.The VLC team have announced a UWP (Universal Windows Platform) app of the extremely useful and popular video player. If everything goes as planned, the team will be able to bring VLC Media Player to the console this summer. The group will publicly release an early version of the app next week Xbox One owners will be able to try it in Dev Mode. Nigro said his team began working on Xbox One support for the UWP version of VLC Media Player in February.

Anyone who owns an Xbox One can put the system in 'Dev Mode' to test UWP games and apps Dev Mode is currently available in a preview, and is scheduled to launch this summer. Microsoft announced three weeks ago, during its annual Build developer conference, that it was finally enabling all Xbox One consoles to be turned into development kits. The VLC announcement could serve as an example of the benefits of UWP. Microsoft denied those allegations and said it wasn't locking down Windows with UWP. Sweeney wrote an opinion piece last month in which he raised concerns about UWP, charging that Microsoft's implementation of UWP threatened the open Windows PC ecosystem. Some developers, including Epic Games co-founder Tim Sweeney, have criticized the UWP platform. In November 2015, Microsoft released a major Xbox One system update that brought Windows 10 to the console. Microsoft's UWP platform, which the company integrated into Windows 10, is designed to allow developers to write a single app that runs on any device running that operating system. Starting today, anyone can turn their Xbox One into a dev kit for free

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