Android (mobile) beta release notes

Plex Players Player Betas
183

Plex for Android 7.12.0.9120-beta

Available on Google Play.

This release does not include any changes that affect the Android mobile platform.

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184

Plex for Android 7.12.0.9193-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:
- Playback: audio content could make app crash on devices running Android < 6. (#12247)

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185

Plex for Android 7.12.0.9272-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Battery consumption could be too high.

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186

Plex for Android 7.13.0.9390-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • Display signal quality during Live TV playback.
  • Add support for subtitle styling.
  • Remember if audio visualizers were enabled.
  • Add support for subtitle styling when casting to Chromecast.
  • [Mobile] Add support for subtitle download when casting to Chromecast.

FIXES:

  • Playback: app could crash when exiting audio player.
  • Playback: potential crash when starting playback.
  • Error message would not display when there was no content.
  • Playback: failure to direct play videos that contain large embedded attachments (e.g. fonts).
  • App could crash for users with FreeNAS/FreeBSD setup when pressing record on an episode.
  • Playback: don’t rebuffer when switching audio or subtitle tracks.
  • Playback: changes to passthrough support was not always detected, leading to failure to direct play.
  • [Mobile] App could crash at startup trying to restore synced items if device language set to Turkish.
  • [Mobile] Add support for auto play and subtitle size control to Chromecast remote.
  • [Mobile] Timeline/jump to letter scroller could not be visible.
  • [Mobile] Music playback speed should only be visible for Podcasts or music from libraries that have “Store track progress” enabled.
  • [Mobile] A wrong error message was displayed when a source was offline.
  • [Mobile] Don’t show ‘Download’ action in sections that don’t support it.
  • [Mobile] Display correct title for bottom dialog when a source is offline.

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187

Plex for Android 7.13.0.9404-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Improved logging when crash occurs.

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188

Plex for Android 7.13.0.9449-beta

Available on Google Play.

This release does not include any changes that affect the Android mobile platform

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189

Plex for Android 7.14.0.9725-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • Remote playback can now control subtitle size, color, position and offset.

FIXES:

  • Improvements to application start-up time.
  • Playback: improve headset action handling when playback is backgrounded.
  • Playback: don’t reset position when toggling shuffle/repeat.
  • Playback: audio smooth fades would only work when loudness leveling was enabled.
  • Playback: audio smooth fades were not available for synced content.
  • Live TV: fix incorrect progress in “On right now” cards.
  • Playback: don’t notify to restart playback when audio capabilities change.
  • Playback: improve native log handling.
  • Local Playback: media analysis of files would fail resulting in a 10s wait.
  • [Mobile] Synced content would be missing if device name contained invalid characters.
  • [Mobile] Certain playback actions could not be displayed in Android Auto player.

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190

Plex for Android 7.14.0.9748-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

Changes for this version, impact TV only.

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191

Plex for Android 7.14.0.9809-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Playback: update gnuTLS for Android Q support.

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2 Likes
192

Plex for Android 7.14.0.9882-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [Mobile] App could crash when setting up Sync. (#12576).

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193

Plex for Android 7.14.0.9943-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • App could crash when starting video playback.

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194

Plex for Android 7.15.0.10030-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • App could crash when starting playback with subtitles.
  • Improve search when handling lots of results.
  • Improve startup management and prevent boot actions from crashing the app on startup.
  • Prevent crash while establishing connection types for server.
  • Prevent crash whilst determining a devices reachability.
  • Playback: prevent race condition that could result in a crash before video playback.
  • Playback: Soundprint visualiser would only show 50% of the track.
  • Playback: direct play 7.1 AAC when supported.
  • Subtitle search would not fetch subtitles for the current item in the play queue.
  • Playback: playqueue order icon could not be displayed in tablets.
  • Prevent crash when opening local content. (plex-media-server#9865)
  • [Mobile] Podcasts: subscription screen did not display “Cancel” action.
  • [Mobile] App could crash when updating remote players list.
  • [Mobile] Prevent app freeze when updating local content.
  • [Mobile] Playback: improve size parsing to prevent crash when the height is unknown.
  • [Mobile] App could crash after clicking zero state “Retry” uncer certain circumstances.
  • [Mobile] App could crash when playing an item from its overflow menu.
  • [Mobile] Prevent crash when scanning for castable devices.
  • [Mobile] Prevent crash when trying to cast without a play queue.
  • [Mobile] App could show source being unavailable when it’s not discovered yet.
  • [Mobile] The pin entry screen wouldn’t scale correctly on small screens.

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195

Plex for Android 7.15.0.10094-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • App could crash loading an item.
  • App could crash refreshing resources.
  • [Mobile] Playback: keep playback active when in split-screen or multi-window mode.
  • [Mobile] Refresh the preplay screen after an item has been played.

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196

Plex for Android 7.15.0.10127-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Prevent crash when scheduling background work.
  • Playback: crash playing music where limited loudness data was available.
  • [Mobile] Playback: improve controlbar visibility when opening the play-queue and dialogs.
  • [Mobile] Playback: minimising the player would not work.
  • [Mobile] Playback: allow external players with the new player.

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1 Like
197

Plex for Android 7.15.0.10165-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [Mobile] Playback: prevent crash when stopping playback.
  • [Mobile] Playback: remote playback improvements.
  • [Mobile] Playback: ensure music continues when closing the player.

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198

Plex for Android 7.15.0.10182-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [Mobile] Playback: improve experience when opening the player.

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199

Plex for Android 7.16.0.10280-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • [Mobile] Support seeking audio from notifications on Android Q.

FIXES:

  • [Mobile] Improve software navigation background color (e.g. Samsung devices).
  • [Mobile] Ensure app does not display Live TV show as playable when it is not currently airing.
  • [Mobile] Sync: calculating space left could crash.
  • [Mobile] Player: pressing back should close bottom sheet instead of minimising player.
  • [Mobile] Playback: the video player’s controls could hide when the video hasn’t loaded yet.
  • [Mobile] Update soundprint seek position even when paused.
  • [Mobile] Player: pressing back should navigate to previous bottom sheets.

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200

Plex for Android 7.16.0.10308-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [Mobile] Player: allow multi-channel AAC to direct play where supported.
  • [Mobile] Player: prevent controls from being clickable when the huds are hidden.

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1 Like
201

Plex for Android 7.16.0.10335-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [Mobile] Player: improve order of available playback qualities.
  • [Mobile] Player: improve reliability of back button handling during playback.
  • [Mobile] App could crash when refreshing devices.
  • [Mobile] Player: app could crash launching player remotely.
  • [Mobile] Player: Prevent full screen player crashing when enabling battery saver mode.

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202

Plex for Android 7.16.0.10438-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Downloading on-demand subtitles could fail.
  • [Mobile] Player: prevent controls from being clickable when the huds are hidden.
  • [Mobile] Player: ensure buffering UI fills the screen.

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3 Likes