Android (mobile) beta release notes

Plex Players Player Betas
323

Plex for Android 8.2.0.18481-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Reset customization zero state shows incorrectly.
  • App could crash when tunning Live TV content.
  • [Mobile] Live TV: some improvements to how we update recording status on preplays.
  • [Mobile] “Go to …” actions were showing (or not showing) incorrectly.
  • [Mobile] ‘Open Video File’ action could crash the app on devices running Android 11.
  • [Mobile] Shuffle wasn’t displaying on music libraries if artist type was selected.

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324

Plex for Android 8.2.0.18495-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Player: app could crash when finishing playback.

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325

Plex for Android 8.2.0.18572-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • App could crash accessing settings.

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326

Plex for Android 8.2.0.18603-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Search target location picker could not be correctly displayed on tablets.

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327

Plex for Android 8.2.0.18617-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • App could crash if Home screen had content from old servers.

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328

Plex for Android 8.3.0.18653-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • Add support for server update notification.
  • Play on deck episode from show and season preplay screen when applicable.
  • Player: Sleep Timer support for video
  • Watch Together: support for inviting friends during playback.

FIXES:

  • Player: start loading the next video once the postplay hides.
  • Player: prevent Skip Intro from appearing during postplay.
  • Player: improve startup speed by removing unncessary network request.
  • Player: controls would not always re-appear.
  • “Scan Library Files” action did not work from “Library” tab.
  • Player: improve playback on networks with DNS rebinding protection.
  • Live TV: minor improvement to TV guide initial loading time.
  • Player: restore playback speed when switching from Podcasts to music.
  • Player: improve look of double tap gesture.
  • Player: scale text based subtitles when entering Picture in Picture mode.
  • App could crash while loading some images.
  • Player: don’t offer subtitle downloads when connected to a remote player that doesn’t support it.
  • Player: play the same version of media when moving from remote to local playback.
  • Player: handle subtitle and audio stream selection when being controlled remotely.
  • Player: offer correct streams when casting remotely.
  • Player: display errors fullscreen when Picture in Picture is enabled
  • Player: toggle playback when either the Play or Pause buttons are pressed.
  • Player: repeat mode would not be set correctly.
  • Player: update server view state when being controlled via Companion.
  • Display Play button when swiping through the video mini-player.
  • Player: prevent potential crash when closing video player.
  • Player: Play Version was ignored if playing trailers.
  • Player: display resolution in Playback Info.
  • [Mobile] Wrong image displayed in Android Auto player.

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329

Plex for Android 8.3.0.18715-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Switching between Home users was sometimes not possible.
  • [Mobile] Preplays: navigating to a recording from the schedule would not work.
  • [Mobile] Wrong image displayed in Android Auto player.

BETA:

  • [Mobile] Player: ensure thumbnail is displayed when loading.
  • [Mobile] Play action text was cropped on detail screens.

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330

Plex for Android 8.3.0.18775-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • App could crash trying to play music tracks.
  • [Mobile] Account settings was hidden for users without a Plex Server.

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331

Plex for Android 8.3.0.18867-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Live TV: fix progress display sometimes showing incorrectly on TV guide.
  • Live TV: further improvements to TV guide loading times.
  • [Mobile] Preplay: show label when item cannot be played.
  • [Mobile] Preplay: don’t show two “See all” buttons on Webshow and Podcasts preplays.

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332

Plex for Android 8.3.0.18893-beta

Available on Google Play.

Internal changes only.

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333

Plex for Android 8.3.1.19088-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Player: scale subtitles when displaying guide.
  • Player: improve experience when switching to and from the guide.
  • Player: improve messaging around buffering scenarios.
  • Player: clean up resources after playback ends.
  • Player: improve startup speed by removing (another) unncessary network request.

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334

Plex for Android 8.4.0.19098-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Make sure geo-restricted video can be added to watchlist.
  • Player: hide “Go to video” option for news videos.
  • Player: quickly hitting “Next”/“Previous” buttons could display incorrect information about item played.
  • Player: provide proper audio ducking mechanism.
  • Preplays: display albums release year in artist preplays.
  • Preplays: divide double albums into discs.
  • First Run: prevent alignment issues in source selector.
  • Preplays: don’t refresh the screen on device rotation.
  • Navigating back from “Downloads & Sync” would prevent navigating to that screen again.
  • Preplays: indicate which episodes are unplayed in a podcast show.
  • Navigate to Show when title is clicked in details screen.

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335

Plex for Android 8.4.0.19157-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • Live TV: tapping the channel logo in the TV guide will now directly tune the channel.

BETA:

  • Preplays: Podcasts and Web Shows show preplays were missing the episodes list.
  • Preplays: Podcasts and Web Shows width would not match screen.

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336

Plex for Android 8.4.0.19219-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • App could crash trying to populate Home screen.

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338

Plex for Android 8.4.0.19231-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • This version contains no changes that affect the mobile layout.

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339

Plex for Android 8.4.1.19315-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Player: watching channels with smaller airings could fail to display the next airing in the player.
  • Player: update what’s playing for Live TV.
  • App could crash after performing certain network requests.

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340

Plex for Android 8.4.2.19371-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • App could crash starting audio playback.

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341

Plex for Android 8.5.0.19400-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Player: crash could occur when switching to the next video.
  • Player: improve startup speed when initially loading.
  • Player: improve starting quality when playing adaptive video.
  • [Mobile] Player: audio controls would not be displayed correct when in split screen.
  • [Mobile] Preplays: errors would not be centered on tablet devices.

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342

Plex for Android 8.5.0.19468-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Player: crash could still occur when switching to the next video, if display mode switching was enabled.
  • [Mobile] Player: app could crash when displaying audio visualizer.
  • [Mobile] Auto: app could not display Podcasts content.
  • [Mobile] Auto: app could crash loading Podcasts content.

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Fire TV Stick 4K Refreshrate switching causes Transcoding
343

Plex for Android 8.5.0.19518-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • TIDAL playlists were missing their artwork.

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