Android (mobile) beta release notes

Plex Players Player Betas
406

Plex for Android 8.13.0.22921-beta

Available on Google Play.

No mobile specific changes in this release.

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407

Plex for Android 8.13.0.22954-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

BETA:

  • Offline Podcasts: first downloaded episodes were not available without an app restart.

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408

Plex for Android 8.13.1.23035-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Player: prevent endless spinner when playing AVOD.

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409

Plex for Android 8.14.0.23093-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

FIXES:

  • Player: app could crash when exiting playback.
  • Unpinned sources would pin again when reseting customization.
  • Player: prevent empty hubs from appearing on the postplay.
  • Player: stop orange border around adverts.
  • Player: ‘subtitles position’ setting didn’t work.
  • Watch Together: fix ‘remove’ action in card context menus.
  • Update blur background to use 4 colors instead of 6.
  • [Mobile] Player: prevent music video information from overlapping the play-queue.
  • [Mobile] Fix cloud scanning of local video files.

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410

Plex for Android 8.14.0.23228-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

FIXES:

  • Dimmed background fallback to blur not working correctly.

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411

Plex for Android 8.14.0.23306-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

BETA:

  • Home: app could crash when exiting playback.
  • My TIDAL content was not available after signing in.
  • Preplays: some hubs would show when empty or incorrect items.
  • Preplay: returning to Season screen would lose details info.
  • Home: possible to have duplicate hubs on automatically managed Home.

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412

Plex for Android 8.14.0.23337-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

BETA:

  • Library: returning from details screen would lose focus and reset view.
  • Preplays: single season preplays would show incorrect episode thumbnails.
  • My TIDAL content was not available after signing in.

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413

Plex for Android 8.14.0.23385-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

BETA:

  • [Mobile] Preplays: album preplay would only display the first track.

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414

Plex for Android 8.14.0.23398-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

This release contains improvements to unreleased features.

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415

Plex for Android 8.14.1.23512-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

FIXES:

  • Player: prevent ANR when closing player.
  • Core: hubs would not update as expected after changes to progress/watched status
  • [Mobile] App could crash on launch for Sync users
  • [Mobile] Live TV: featured channels cards could incorrectly show as poster images.

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416

Plex for Android 8.15.0.23605-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

WHATS NEW:

  • Player: support for multi-part media.

FIXES:

  • Preplay: Artist TV was missing.
  • Player: crash when playing transcoded video with selected MOV_TEXT subtitle.
  • Player: don’t display post play when repeating video.
  • Live TV: improve tune times when switching channels.
  • Live TV: switching channels could be slower than expected.
  • Preplay thumbnail was low resolution when navigating via “Go to Show”.
  • Cast: potential crash when resuming the app.
  • Player: app crashes while trying to play a slowmotion/timelapse video
  • Library: some hub items could be duplicated.
  • Player: exiting playback during split-screen would bring Plex to the foreground.
  • App could crash when tuning a Live TV program before the UI is ready.
  • Fix issue with overflow menu not fully expanding on landscape mode.
  • Dimmed background fallback to blur not working correctly.
  • [Mobile] Mini player could get in a state in which it was not possible to close it.
  • [Mobile] Player: pressing the skip intro button would lead to the controls becoming visible.

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417

Plex for Android 8.15.0.23620-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

FIXES:

BETA:

  • Player: app could crash playing Live TV

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418

Plex for Android 8.15.0.23698-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

FIXES:

  • Player: crash could occur when playing an item from the postplay.
  • Preplay: cast list could contain duplicate items.
  • Player: improve Live TV playback.
  • Deeplinks: app could fail to open if attempting to play media while in the background.

BETA:

  • Player: prevent potential crash sending timeline events.

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419

Plex for Android 8.15.0.23770-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

BETA:

  • Preplay: glitch with placeholders when loading season/episode preplay.

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420

Plex for Android 8.15.0.23829-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

FIXES:

  • Player: prevent crash while removing WiFi lock when exiting playback.

BETA:

  • Core: app could crash when updating Home on low powered devices.

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421

Plex for Android 8.15.0.23847-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

BETA:

  • Player: crash when trying to select audio track for OTA live tv.

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422

Plex for Android 8.15.1.23934-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

FIXES:

  • [Mobile] App could crash on Huawei tablets when displaying the the first run announcement.

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423

Plex for Android 8.15.2.23956-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

FIXES:

  • Home: continue watching hub would only contain 10 items from one server.

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424

Plex for Android 8.15.2.23984-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

FIXES:

  • Preplays: aritst would only be displaying 10 albums.

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425

Plex for Android 8.15.2.23989-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

BETA:

  • Hubs would only contain 10 items.

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