Android (mobile) beta release notes

Plex Players Player Betas
344

Plex for Android 8.5.0.19547-beta

Available on Google Play.

Changes only affect TV platform

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345

Plex for Android 8.5.0.19602-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Live TV: Auto pin the Cloud EPG source.
  • Downloading Podcasts could fail sometimes.
  • [Mobile] Player: crash could occur when starting remote playback of augmented or Live TV content.

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346

Plex for Android 8.5.0.19642-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Preplay: play button would stop working after device orientation changed.

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347

Plex for Android 8.5.1.19748-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Live TV on Plex: playback could fail when attempting to cast.

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348

Plex for Android 8.6.0.19962-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Player: app could crash when starting video playback.
  • Player: transcode when requested by server due to bandwidth limition.
  • Live TV: always start at the live edge.
  • Display the resume dialog when playing a partially played video.
  • Device clean up leaves deleted Live TV & DVR sources.
  • App could crash loading images on some devices in certain screens.
  • Image caching improvements.
  • [Mobile] Preplays: episode in a season were missing descriptions.
  • [Mobile] Preplays: background art could sometimes be displayed at the bottom of the screen.
  • [Mobile] Player: resuming from mini-player would not be possible if playback was closed during Picture in Picture.
  • [Mobile] Player: don’t display audio visualizer and thumbnail at the same time.

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349

Plex for Android 8.6.0.20023-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Player: app could crash starting music playback in certain scenarios.
  • [Mobile] Podcasts: app could crash downloading shows with many episodes.
  • [Mobile] Preplays: related tracks were not displayed in a list.
  • [Mobile] Preplays: tracks titles were misaligned in albums.

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350

Plex for Android 8.6.0.20028-beta

Available on Google Play.

Changes only affect TV platform

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351

Plex for Android 8.6.0.20097-beta

Available on Google Play.

Changes only affect TV platform

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352

Plex for Android 8.6.0.20130-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

Internal changes only

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353

Plex for Android 8.6.0.20174-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [Mobile] Preplays: add “Add/Remove” action for Tidal content.

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354

Plex for Android 8.6.0.20178-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Bring back information about crashes in the logs.

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355

Plex for Android 8.6.0.20226-beta

Available on Google Play.

Changes affect TV platform only

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356

Plex for Android 8.6.0.20268-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Player: videos with capitals in the file extension would be unable to direct play.

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357

Plex for Android 8.6.0.20306-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [Mobile] Playing synced content could cause app crash.

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358

Plex for Android 8.6.0.20325-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Live TV: better handling of navigation to preplays from the TV guide.

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359

Plex for Android 8.6.0.20334-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

Changes affect to TV platform only

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360

Plex for Android 8.6.0.20340-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [Mobile] Preplays: selecting an audio/subtitle stream would not be reflected in the video details.

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361

Plex for Android 8.7.0.20568-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • Player: improved postplay experience.

FIXES:

  • Player: some background images may fail to display while playback is loading.
  • Improve appearance of season and episode numbering.
  • Cast: certain content could not be played correctly.
  • Performance: Improve speed of loading the user picker.
  • Performance: improve application startup speed and responsiveness.
  • [Mobile] Pressing up from a preplay zero state didn’t return to previous screen.
  • [Mobile] Opening video via a file explorer would result in a blank screen.
  • [Mobile] Don’t show summary in notification settings if value missing.

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362

Plex for Android 8.7.0.20631-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Live TV on Plex: channels would buffer periodically.
  • [Mobile] App could crash adding an episode to already present play queue through “Add to queue” action.

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363

Plex for Android 8.7.0.20692-beta

Available on Google Play.
No mobile changes in this release.

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