Android (mobile) beta release notes

Plex for Android 8.10.0.21860-beta

Available on Google Play.

TV changes only.

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Plex for Android 8.10.0.21914-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • App could crash trying to display some item images.

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Plex for Android 8.11.0.21947-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • Preplay: show played status on media detail screens.
  • Bump the minimum supported Plex Media Server version to 1.18.3.
  • Content rows on your home screen are now ordered by the pinned items in your sidebar.

FIXES:

  • Player: app could crash on playback error if server connection is not available.
  • Perfomance: minor improvement to memory usage of Home.
  • Performance: app could attempt to make WebSocket connections to unsupported servers.
  • Search: app could crash when presenting results.

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Plex for Android 8.11.0.21963-beta

Available on Google Play.

  • No visible changes with respect to the previous beta.

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Plex for Android 8.11.0.22024-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • App could crash trying to process search results.

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Plex for Android 8.11.0.22093-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [Mobile] App could crash trying to resume from the background.

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Plex for Android 8.11.0.22162-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Improve the way we process the subscription purchase in some edge cases.
  • Home hubs could be duplicated on a cold start.
  • App could display the ‘Personalize Your Home Screen’ message after a refresh.
  • ‘Download’ action was missing for Podcasts content.

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Plex for Android 8.11.0.22166-beta

Available on Google Play.

  • Fix one potential cause of ‘application not responding’ issue.

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Plex for Android 8.12.0.22456-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • Player: upgrade ExoPlayer to r2.12.1
  • Preplay: Show HD suffix for DTS-HD audio.
  • Player: Include stream title when available in stream selections.
  • [Mobile] Core: new appearance for overflow menus.
  • [Mobile] Core: cards now use long click actions for accessing overflow menus.

FIXES:

  • Home: media provider sources were not always in the correct initial order.
  • Player: prevent crash when closing the player shortly after opening the player.
  • Player: ensure screen isn’t kept awake when last item ends.
  • Player: don’t show HDR upsell for non-video items.
  • Live TV: app could crash if tuning from a Recent Channel hub with more than 6 items.
  • Player: fix potential black screen during playback when software decoding is required.
  • “Go to show” action would not be displayed in season overflow menu.
  • [Chromebook] Disable use of multichannel AAC.
  • [Mobile] Player: app could crash trying to show ‘item unavailable’ dialog before playback.
  • [Mobile] 2fa: going back from the verification code screen would display overlapped layout.
  • [Mobile] Home: last hub was sometimes partially hidden.
  • [Mobile] 2fa: auto-pasting the verfication code would not always work.
  • [Mobile] Preplay: display up to 3 secondary actions.
  • [Mobile] All playlists would be displayed when navigating to the playlists source.
  • [Mobile] Sharing: only one server would be displayed when creating a new share.

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Plex for Android 8.12.0.22522-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [Mobile] Trying to open the ‘Library’ tab of a source crashed the app.

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Plex for Android 8.12.0.22562-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Player: crash when playback fails.
  • Player: fix playback of 7.1 DTS-HD content when using local decoding.

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Plex for Android 8.12.0.22620-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Player: incorrect tracks would sometimes be selected.
  • Core: app could crash when loading card items.

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Plex for Android 8.12.0.22657-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Live TV: on some devices the app could crash when a tune failed.

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Plex for Android 8.12.0.22681-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

No visible changes with respect to the previous beta.

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Plex for Android 8.12.0.22722-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Player: filter out unsupported streams to prevent crash at startup.
  • Core: custom home could show duplicate hubs.

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Plex for Android 8.12.2.22740-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [Mobile] App would crash when tapping on preplay item overflow button.

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Plex for Android 8.12.2.22745-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Player: Certain videos failed to start.
  • [Mobile] App would crash when tapping on preplay item overflow button.

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Plex for Android 8.12.3.22784-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Player: improve reliability of initial track selection.

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Plex for Android 8.13.0.22830-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • Live TV: new card style for Featured Channels on Home screen.

FIXES:

  • Live TV: playback could require pressing back multiple times in order to close.
  • DVR: selecting a different library to record to didn’t work.
  • Player: ensure the correct item is used for Live TV airings.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: don’t require app activation in order to play downloaded Podcasts.
  • [Mobile] Player: app could crash when entering Picture in Picture.
  • [Mobile] App could crash when coming back to “My Tidal” list from a preplay.
  • [Mobile] Long usernames would overlap the edit button.

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Plex for Android 8.13.0.22880-beta

Available on Google Play.

No mobile specific changes in this release.

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