Android (mobile) beta release notes

Plex Players Player Betas
426

Plex for Android 8.16.0.24021-beta

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

WHATS NEW:

  • Introduce local cache for Home/Libraries to improve performance.
  • [Mobile] Improve sign in screen on tablet devices.

FIXES:

  • Continue watching hub in “Movies & TV” source would only contain 10 items.
  • Playlist thumbnails would fail to load sometimes.
  • Player: multi-part videos would only play the first two parts.
  • Home: continue watching hub would only contain 10 items from one server.
  • DVR: crash when editing a recording.
  • DVR: trying to edit a recording from the ‘Schedule’ tab resulted in an empty dialog.
  • Player: hubs would be missing from the postplay.
  • Player: potential crash when exiting during post play screen.
  • Ensure that cloud content is shown in the right language for the device.
  • Display proper subtitle in episode cards if show is date-based.
  • DVR: show ‘location’ dropdown when editing a recording if multiple locations are available.
  • Player: crash could occur when loading a stream with zero bytes of initialisation data.
  • Folder cards could be unreadable.
  • Auto: improve reliability when application hasn’t yet started.
  • Player: crash could occur when launching the player with no chapter data.
  • Player: ensure surface is prepared before playback begins.
  • Player: potential crash when closing player.
  • Player: bump ExoPlayer to r2.13.1.
  • Preplay summaries didn’t include full paragraph breaks.
  • [Mobile] Player: lyrics for tracks opened from search were not always displayed.
  • [Mobile] Settings: improve naming of the device name setting.

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427

Plex for Android 8.16.0.24099-beta

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

FIXES:

  • Home: hubs from different servers would sometimes display the same data.

BETA:

  • App could crash trying to find reachable servers at launch.
  • Home: opening the app for the first time displayed an infinite loading spinner.

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428

Plex for Android 8.16.0.24176-beta

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

BETA:

  • App could crash trying to find reachable servers at launch.
  • [Mobile] Deeplinks: shows from mediaverse were not opened correctly.

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429

Plex for Android 8.16.0.24231-beta

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

BETA:

  • Android Auto was not working reliably.

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430

Plex for Android 8.16.0.24298-beta
Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

BETA:

  • Player: postplay video would not shrink.
  • Don’t make requests to nano if it’s not available.
  • [Mobile] App could crash trying to show notification.

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431

Plex for Android 8.16.0.24371-beta

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

BETA:

  • Player: app could crash while playing specific audio content.
  • [Mobile] Live TV: channel logos on the TV guide could incorrectly scale for XMLTV users.

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432

Plex for Android 8.17.0.24676-beta

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

FIXES:

  • Podcasts: fix ‘OPML import’ feature.
  • The ability to delete a playlist was missing in some places.
  • Auto: don’t show multiple music libraries from the same server.
  • ‘Advertise as server’ setting didn’t work.
  • App could crash when leaving video or audio player.
  • Podcast playback behavior icons were not following menu order.
  • Live TV: app could crash when seeking.
  • Posters could jump when data replaced placeholders while loading.

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433

Plex for Android 8.17.0.24742-beta

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

BETA:

  • App could crash trying to update playback state.

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434

Plex for Android 8.17.0.24840-beta

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

BETA:

  • App could crash trying to compute the amount of storage used by Sync.
  • Mediaverse deeplinks did not open correctly.

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435

Plex for Android 8.17.0.24894-beta

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

BETA:

  • App could crash trying to determine if playback was possible.

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436

Plex for Android 8.17.0.24942-beta

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

BETA:

  • App could crash loading the TV guide.

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437

Plex for Android 8.17.0.25028-beta

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

BETA:

  • No changes that affect the mobile version of the app.

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438

Plex for Android 8.17.0.25084-beta

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

BETA:

  • Player: resuming did not always set the correct offset.

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439

Plex for Android 8.17.1.25306-beta

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

FIXES:

  • Player: skipping tracks could result in multiple tracks being skipped.

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440

Plex for Android 8.18.0.25332-beta

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

WHATS NEW:

  • Support for TMDB and TVDB rating images on detail screens.

FIXES:

  • Player: ensure games are scaled correctly.
  • Player: prevent black screen when playing games on some devices.
  • Player: ensure player service doesn’t crash on startup.
  • App could crash trying to display play queue viewer during playback.
  • App could crash trying to show upsell after anonymous user playback.
  • Playing theme music from a TV show could sometimes result in a crash.
  • Navigation: display proper subtitle in item cards when ‘by rating’ library sort enabled.
  • Player: app could crash when player was closing.
  • Preplay: hubs would not update correctly when moving through episodes.
  • [Mobile] App could crash trying to display library grid.
  • [Mobile] Preplay: adding podcasts/webshows to “My Shows” would not update the button.
  • [Mobile] Navigating up from an episode goes back to show preplay for single season.
  • [Mobile] Improve appearance of multi-selected items.

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441

Plex for Android 8.18.0.25559-beta

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

BETA:

  • Continue Watching hub in Movies & Shows would not show content.
  • Preplay: episodes would sometimes fail to display.

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442

Plex for Android 8.18.0.25615-beta

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

BETA:

  • [Mobile] App could crash trying to determine the amount of storage used by Sync.

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443

Plex for Android 8.18.1.25720-beta

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

FIXES:

  • App could crash trying to populate media details screen.
  • App could crash trying to determine if play queue was playable.
  • App could crash when trying to determine local IP address.

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444

Plex for Android 8.19.0.25897-beta

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

WHATS NEW:

  • [Mobile] Remove the Camera Upload feature.

FIXES:

  • Search: App could crash while loading search results.
  • Player: prevent crash when closing the player.
  • Don’t try to re-fetch all home hubs if there is an error.
  • Player: ensure game sessions are terminated.
  • Player: support for Z button on N64 games.
  • Background: possible ultrablur color extraction crash.
  • App could crash during playback.
  • Preplay: app could crash when opening Preplay from home.
  • Player: prevent crash when transcoding videos with VobSub subtitles.
  • Player: app could crash trying to display ‘playback info’ menu.
  • Player: align Arabic stream names to other titles.
  • Player: show extended title for subtitles.
  • App could crash trying to find reachable servers in the background.
  • Preplay: app could incorrectly show 0 as played progress played.
  • [Hubs] Library tab will show even when there are no recommendations.
  • [Mobile] App could crash trying to initialize playlists details screen.
  • [Mobile] Fix crash sharing logs on devices running Android 5.
  • [Mobile] Notifications: grouped push notifications would be posted in the media channel.
  • [Mobile] Improve MiniPlayer button appearance.

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445

Plex for Android 8.19.0.25987-beta

Please use 8.19.0.26001-beta instead.