Skype With Video Hacked To Work On Other Android Handsets

By on July 1, 2011 in Software

In case you missed it yesterday, Skype now supports video chat on Android. But only on four officially supported devices.

I say “officially” because it didn’t take long for the hardcore users at XDA-developers to force the Skype 2.0 app to work on more hardware.
The Galaxy S community was the first to take a stab at it, removing the line of code that checks for device IDs. The modified .apk has been reported to work on the Galaxy S, Galaxy S2, Evo 3D and 4G, and a bunch of other front-facing camera devices.

Click here for the hacked installer, but you may need to log in to the XDA forum to download it.

It requires Gingerbread, Android 2.3, on your device to work with video (probably has to do with camera APIs),  and some devices may still crash the app after the login screen. We were unable to get it working on a Viewsonic GTablet; however, it does seem to work on the original Galaxy Tab. Still, techciting!

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