Android (mobile) beta release notes

Plex Players Player Betas
263

Plex for Android 7.25.2.14252-beta

Available on Google Play.

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264

Plex for Android 7.26.0.14255-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • [Mobile] UNO: Offline badge added to sidebar items.

FIXES:

  • Fix ‘reconnect’ action in offline home screen hubs.
  • Delete option was incorrectly showing on some items.
  • [Mobile] Player: prevent crash when removing music notification.
  • [Mobile] Live TV: fix padding on “Recording Scheduled” badge in pre-play.
  • [Mobile] Display ratings control as the last menu option.
  • [Mobile] Speed playback could not appear for music content.

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265

Plex for Android 7.26.0.14321-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • Live TV: TV guide now loads more of the future schedule.

FIXES:

  • Playback: ensure that when resuming remote content locally, it does actually start.
  • Ensure home screen hubs are refreshed often enough.

BETA:

  • Player: prevent crash when searching for subtitles.

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266

Plex for Android 7.26.0.14345-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Android Auto: improve playback over voice search.
  • Playback: ensure that when resuming remote content locally, it does actually start.
  • Ensure home screen hubs are refreshed often enough.

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267

Plex for Android 7.26.0.14385-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Don’t reset customisations of users without a server.

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268

Plex for Android 7.26.0.14396-beta

Available on Google Play.

This release only has changes that impact TV devices.

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269

Plex for Android 7.26.0.14438-beta

Available on Google Play.

This release only has changes that impact TV devices.

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270

Plex for Android 7.26.0.14521-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Prevent crash when deleting an item from a hub.

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271

Plex for Android 7.27.0.14746-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • [Cast] Player: support modifying repeat mode during playback.
  • [Sync] Action exposed in poster menu for more media types.

FIXES:

  • Improve how related content is displayed in preplay screens.
  • Android Auto: improve information displayed for podcasts content.
  • User could be randomly logged out of the app.
  • Player: update settings to reflect stream selection changes.
  • Player: ensure postplay doesn’t keep the screen awake.
  • Android Auto: fix issue where sections with large content could not load.
  • First run picker would sometimes not include sources from the selected media server.
  • Storage permission might not show when accessing camera roll content.
  • Playback: videos in photo libraries would only play once.
  • Player: ensure playback continues after switching audio streams.
  • Player: support for refresh rate / resolution switching with cloud content.
  • [Mobile] App could crash when rotating the screen while using the TV layout.
  • [Mobile] Player: prevent visualizer interferring with Play Queue scrolling.
  • [Mobile] Player: don’t display “Add to Playlist” option when not supported.
  • [Mobile] Playlist preplay screen could display wrong secondary actions.
  • [Mobile] “Use low quality on cellular” music quality preference could not work.
  • [Mobile] “Play next” action from synced content could make app crash.
  • [Mobile] Player: ensure playback can be used when using Samsung Kids Home.

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272

Plex for Android 7.27.0.14824-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • App could crash on startup.
  • [Mobile] Offline hubs on custom Home would not show badge.
  • [Mobile] Users & Sharing: some restriction settings were missing.

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273

Plex for Android 7.27.0.14844-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [Mobile] Users & Sharing: Sharing information could be incorrectly displayed.

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274

Plex for Android 7.27.0.14941-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [Mobile] “Jump to letter” UI component not visible on libraries.
  • [Mobile] Photo timeline scroll UI component not visible.
  • [Mobile] Playback speed was missing for music content.

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275

Plex for Android 7.27.0.14964-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Playback options were missing when using Android companion.

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276

Plex for Android 7.28.0.15170-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Live TV: force transcoding of unsupported interlaced content on Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K.
  • Live TV: fix issue preventing transcode of video.
  • Player: reduce buffer size to improve playback on lower end devices.
  • Player: prevent crash when searching for subtitles.
  • Artist Radio Play Queues don’t contain tracks from shared sources.
  • Playback: fix issue preventing WMA support.
  • Live TV: fix unable to record show if selecting library to save recording to.
  • Playback didn’t work on versions of Plex Media Server older than 1.10.
  • Offline “Playlists” tab was missing.
  • Live TV: ensure recorded live TV uses new player.
  • Make sure same home hubs from different servers show right content.
  • Improve how related content is displayed in preplay screens.
  • Server claiming prompt was missing for signed out servers on local network.
  • “All episodes” view was formatted incorrectly for TV shows.
  • Live TV: improve channel ordering fallbacks on TV guide for XMLTV users.
  • [Mobile] Don’t scroll back to the top when rotating on the recommended screen.
  • [Mobile] Display playback speed slider for synced music.
  • [Mobile] Hide inapplicable actions in folder view.
  • [Mobile] Ensure tab bar is visible when opening a new source.
  • [Mobile] Playback from related content could not work.
  • [Mobile] Edit home screen action removed from hubs (still available in home menu).
  • [Mobile] Sorts were not always restored.
  • [Mobile] Playback: don’t display unsupported options when casting video.
  • [Mobile] Under specific circunstances, starting playback from a Playlist item could only contain selected item.
  • [Mobile] App could fail to restore the last Play Queue played.

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277

Plex for Android 7.28.0.15196-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Restrict Facebook SDK for Login with Facebook only.

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278

Plex for Android 7.28.0.15265-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Fix crash creating a playlist from a nested folder view.
  • [Mobile] Fix crash performing pull-to-refresh action on Home screen.

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279

Plex for Android 7.28.0.15363-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Player: improve playback performance on low memory devices.

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280

Plex for Android 7.28.0.15368-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Player: ensure the correct stream is selected when rendering.

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281

Plex for Android 7.28.0.15375-beta

Available on Google Play.

TV changes only.

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282

Plex for Android 7.28.0.15447-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • App could crash when adding a new user if Plex home was not set up.

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