Video Player For Android - Best And Free App For Playing Movies, Music And Other Videos

This is one of the best Video Players for Android. It comes with very interesting and useful features. It can play most of the CODECs. Some of the wonderful features of this Video Player app are, it can display subtitles and it allows you to zoom the video being played. It allows to play the video in normal size, stretched size and cropped size.

If you are looking for Android Music Player specifically and not just generic video player then you can read about one at : Music Player For Android - With Equalizer, Lyrics, Album Art and Videos

This is second post on Android Video Player and if you have not yet read about first video player app discussed in earlier post then you can read it at : Android Video Player - Best and Free App to Play AVI, WMV, MKV, MP4, FLV and Many Codecs with Subtitles

Video Player For Android - MX Video Player : This is one of the best and free apps to play your movie, music and other videos in most of the CODECs. The user interface of this Video Player is very neat and friendly. It allows you to perform certain operations by swiping finger on video screen and is very cool feature.

Android Video Player - Video List : When you install this app on your Android phone and launch it first time then it may ask you to download the CODECs from Android Market. Just install the CODECs it prompts you to install and once done go back to the app once again. This would display recent changes screen and you can dismiss it to go to folder list screen. Here you would see all the folders on your Android phone where videos are present. Tap the folder that you want to explore further and you would see the list of videos in that folder.

Android Video Player - Video List

As you can see in above screenshot, video list is displayed with cute thumbnails of the video and it's titles. The magnifying glass at top right hand corner of this screen is to search the video you are looking for if you have too many videos in list. The refresh icon just left to magnifying glass icon can be tapped to refresh the video list.

Android Video Player : Full Screen Mode : When you tap any of the video from video list shown in screenshot above then it would start playing that video in landscape orientation.

Android Video Player - Full Screen Mode

As you can see in screenshot above video is played in landscape orientation. The quality of the playback is very nice and it's smooth. While video is being played you can perform multi-touch operations to zoom in or zoom out the video. You can pinch in or out to zoom in or out on video. This is very handy feature when you want to zoom a video and see details on small screen of your Android phone.

Android Video Player - Volume Control : While video is being played, you can swipe the screen vertically to change the volume of the playback with this Android Video Player.

Android Video Player - Volume Control

While you are swiping the finger vertically you can see the volume level being set and can lift the finger as soon as you reach to the desired volume level.

Android Video Player - Fast Forward : You can swipe the finger horizontally on video being played to fast forward or backward in video. This is very cool feature.

Android Video Player - Fast Forward

As shown in screenshot above, while swiping the finger horizontally you can see the location in video where you would be moved and can lift the finger as soon as you reach to the desired location in video. This allows you to fast forward or backward at very precise location in video.

Android Video Player - User Controls : You can tap the video screen to display the user controls of this Video Player App.

Android Video Player - User Controls

The HW icon and Music symbol icon at the right hand top corner of the screen are used to select Decoder and Music Track.

The icon at the right hand bottom corner of the screen can be tapped multiple times to change the screen mode from Stretch, Crop, 100% and Fit Screen.

The three controls at bottom center of the screen are usual play/pause, move next and previous icons and can be tapped to perform actions accordingly.

Android Video Player -  Control Lock Mode : In above screenshot there is a Lock icon at bottom left hand side of the screen. This is a special and different feature. When you tap the lock icon then the swipe and touch features of the app are locked.

When you are in control lock mode then touching or tapping the screen displays the lock icon at the right hand top corner of the screen as shown in screenshot below.

Android Video Player - Control Lock Mode

In this mode you would not see other user controls at the bottom and you can not change the volume of the video by swiping vertically.

This mode is for locking the user controls while you are playing the video so that things do not change accidentally or controls do not come in playing area of the screen when you touch the screen accidentally.

You can install this wonderful app from Android Market or App store of your choice and can start enjoying great video playbacks.

As mentioned at start of this post, this is second post on Android Video Player and if you have not yet read about first video player app discussed in earlier post then you can read it at : Android Video Player - Best and Free App to Play AVI, WMV, MKV, MP4, FLV and Many Codecs with Subtitles

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Best Android Movie App - With Player, Trailers, Showtimes, Tickets, Synopsis and News

There are very few Android Movie apps in Android market which list and play good quality videos of movies. There are plenty of apps which are just redirecting to web sites. Finding a good Android movie app is really a challenge and this is one of the best which is found after trying many available apps. It comes with many features like Synopsis, Showtimes, Tickets, News, Trailers and more.

Moviefone : This is one of the best movie app you can find in Android market. Some people call it Android film app. Using this App you can see the list of old and upcoming movies, search for a specific movie you are looking for, can read the synopsis of the story, can find the cinema halls around you to buy the tickets, can play the good quality movie trailers with it's Android movie player, can read news about movies and much more. This one app has many features which you may be looking for in good Android movie app. When you start this app you see the list of movies (films) which are available.

Android Movies - List of Movies

As you can see in screenshot above, Cars 2, Gone with the wind, Zookeeper, Mr Popper's Penguins and Buck,  movies are listed. You swipe the list vertically to scroll the list and see more available movies to watch. When you tap the movie name it takes you to the synopsis screen.

Android Movies - Synopsis of Story

The above screenshot is showing the Synopsis screen with information of "Kung Fu Panda 2". You can read the brief story of the movie on this page. You can use the Facebook and Share buttons on this screen to tell about this movie to your social network. Tapping the "Showtimes & Tickets" button would take you to the screen where you can find nearby cinema halls where you can book the tickets to watch this movie. You can tap "Play Trailer" button to start playing trailer of this movie with it's Android movie player.

Android Movies - Bad Teacher Trailer

In screenshot above, you can see that quality of the video is very good with this app. This is medium video quality and still the sharpness of picture is too good. You can change the quality using player's user controls. Tap the screen any time to see the user controls of this Android movie player.

Android Movies - Player Controls

You can tap play / pause button to stop playing / resuming the movie video at any point of time. At right hand side of the user control bar the button with word "Medium" is displaying the current video quality selected. You can tap this button to choose the video quality from "Low', "Medium" and "High". Choose the appropriate video quality to suit your network speed.

Android Movies - List of Trailers

You can tap the "Trailers" tab as shown in screenshot above when you want to just see the list of trailers available to view.

Android Movies - News

Similarly you can tap the "News" tab as shown in screenshot above and can see the list of latest news related to movies. Tap the news which you want to read in detail and to check out related pictures and videos.

Android Movies - Settings

When you press the menu button on your Android phone then you can see the settings menus of this app. You can tap "Sort Movie" menu to sort the movie list "By Release Date", "By MPAA Ratings" or "Alphabetically". Tapping the "Search" menu provides a search box where you can type the words to search a movies quickly. Edit location menu allows you to select your location either by typing postal code or using GPS. This location is used to show the list of movies and theaters near by. Settings menu allows you to setup your facebook login credentials.

You can download this best Android film app from Android market of your choice and start enjoying great movies from today. If you like this app then you may would like to check few more wonderful apps from popular sections at the right. Subscribe to RSS feed and keep coming back for more best apps for Android.

You may would like to check few more movies or films apps for Android from Amazon which are listed below : Free Movie Rentals , Movies You Demand and Fandango Movies - Times & Tickets .