Key Takeaways
- com.sec.android.app.vepreload is Samsung’s Video Editor app.
- It’s safe as Samsung develops it.
- Samsung Video Editor app is packaged under com.sec.android.app.vepreload
There are times when new things appear on your phone, such as messages, apps, and packages. But the problem is that there’s no good web resource to explain what each app does.
They can appear anywhere on your phone, like in your applications list, and even Google Activity.
In today’s post you’ll learn:
- What does Com.Sec.Android.App.Vepreload mean
- Should you delete it
- Com. prefix on Android
- Lots more
Let’s dive right in.
What does Com.Sec.Android.App.Vepreload mean?
Com.Sec.Android.App.Vepreload is the package name of the built-in Samsung Video Editor app which works on phones with Android 11 and above (latest version)
This app, as the name implies, allows users to effortlessly edit videos; you can add transitions, music, and text to movie scenes. You can also change the speed of the action and add filters to change the mood of your film.
Info about Samsung Video Editor
- App: Samsung Video Editor
- Latest Version: 4.4.80.5 (448005000)
- Languages: 4
- Package: com.sec.android.app.vepreload
- Min: Android 11 (API 30)
- Target: Android 12 (API 31)
- Latest Update: May 19, 2022
Should you remove Samsung Video Editor?
The app is indeed safe due to the fact that Samsung develops it. However, why keep an app that’s not helpful and may even contribute to slowing down your phone?
Many Android phones including Samsung ones come with lots of preinstalled apps many of which are useless to the end-user and are called bloatware, including Samsung Video Editor.
I won’t call this app bloatware, but we can all agree that most users don’t need it.
How to remove Samsung Video Editor App?
- From the app drawer, tap on the Settings app
- Scroll down and tap on Apps
- Find the pre-installed app you want to uninstall, and tap on it (here I’m going to disable Facebook)
- At the bottom of the screen, tap on Disable if there’s no Uninstall button (basically the same)
- Tap Disable app
Why do most Android apps’ names start with com. prefix?
The reason is to avoid name collisions between applications.
The reverse domain name is used because most (all?) publishers own a unique domain name that, when prefixed to the application name, results in a unique name for the application.
The reason for reverse order is due to the layout of the storage media. If each period (‘.’) in the application name is treated as a path separator, all applications from the same publisher will be grouped together in the path hierarchy.
So, for instance, packages from Adobe would be of the form:
- com.adobe.reader (Adobe Reader)
- com.adobe.photoshop (Adobe Photoshop)
- com.adobe.ideas (Adobe Ideas)
Note that this is just an illustration and these may not be the exact package names.
These could internally be mapped (respectively) to:
- com/adobe/reader
- com/adobe/photoshop
- com/adobe/ideas
The concept comes from Package Naming Conventions in Java, more about which can be read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_package#Package_naming_conventions
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