You will ideally want to download a separate media player, though, as there isn't a
proper video player app here beyond the Gallery — also home to photos.
There are third -
party video player apps available from the Amazon Appstore, but the ones we tried used software decoding and stuttered through HD - quality samples.
Something that's been raised many times with HTC phones is the lack of a
dedicated video player app and once again this basic requirement has passed the Taiwanese firm by on the One Mini 2.
For example, a PDF viewer or
video player app.
Switching to a third - party
video player app that supports software rendering we were able to play all our samples at full speed.
The Premium Suite includes those apps and adds the Calendar, Contacts, Browser, My Files, Polaris Office and
Video Player apps.
Because basically, refering to what you said about being
a video player app, it would be just that.
At stock config, any email links clicked on or offline will launch using the default Windows Mail app, web links will open in Microsoft's new web browser Edge, photos will be routed through the internal Photo Viewer, movies and video files will open in
the Video Player app, and Map requests will automatically route to Bing Maps (from within a new tab of Edge).
In order for Android O's picture - in - picture feature to work seamlessly,
video player apps will have to be updated.
As well as
a video player app Samsung also treats you to a dedicated music player app on the Galaxy S5 Mini.
There are plenty of good music and
video player apps to download for free from Google Play though, so this is no great failing.
Along these lines, Sony rebranded the stock music, gallery, and
video player apps to Walkman, Album, and Movies, and improved the UI for each.