When comparing MX Player Pro vs Codeit, the Slant community recommends Codeit for most people. In the question“What are the best code editors for Android?” Codeit is ranked 11th while MX Player Pro is ranked 12th. The most important reason people chose Codeit is:
Source code is available on [Github](https://github.com/codeitcodes/codeit).
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Pros
Pro Hardware acceleration
Hardware acceleration can be used for video playback to help in the apps HW+ mode. This allows for smoother video playback as well as better playback of higher resolutions.
Pro Built-in touch lock feature
It is possible to have videos played in touch lock mode. It is also possible to hide watermarks or display the player's touch locked status.
Pro Free and open source
Source code is available on Github.
Pro Supports a lot of languages
C, C++, C#, CSS, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Lua, LaTex, Python, Ruby, SQL and more.
Pro Easy to setup
Codeit is really quick to load and pretty simple in terms of UI, so setup is a minute max. It's a web app, so it weighs nothing on your phone too.
Pro Live view
If you're editing a site and want to see how it looks, you can swipe up from the bottom edge and see it live, without any hosting, you can share these previews as well.
Pro Consistency
Codeit is available on Windows and macOS/iOS as well as Linux and Android, and looks the same on all platforms. The editor is pretty simple and you don't have to get used to new code editors every time you swap platforms.
Pro Supports 200 languages
Cons
Con No color adjustment like saturation, hue, and contrast
Con HW+ audio quality is very bad
Con Closed source & paid
Con No ac3 support
There is no ac3 audio support.
Con No Chromecast support
Not having Chromecast support severely limits the apps usefulness to those that use said service, especially when many other video apps support it.
Con No multiple accounts
It would be useful to add more than one Git host account to Codeit.
