Android (mobile) beta release notes

Plex Players Player Betas
446

Plex for Android 8.19.0.26001-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 on start.

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447

Plex for Android 8.19.0.26026-beta

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

No mobile specific changes in this release.

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448

Plex for Android 8.19.0.26150-beta

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

BETA:

  • App could crash in the background when device booted.
  • App could crash when fetching home recommendations.

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449

Plex for Android 8.19.0.26181-beta

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

No mobile specific changes in this release.

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450

Plex for Android 8.19.1.26283-beta

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

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451

Plex for Android 8.19.2.26351-beta

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

FIXES:

  • [TV] Live TV: Fix guide crash on older devices when adding program badges.

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452

Plex for Android 8.20.0.26438-beta

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

WHATS NEW:

  • Downloads: only show ‘initializing downloads’ subtitle during actual view state sync.

FIXES:

  • App could crash trying to populate home screen
  • Player: ensure software audio decoder doesn’t exceed the channels supported by the device.
  • TV: darken default application background
  • Player: crash could occur while closing playback with refresh rate switching enabled.
  • Player: improve audio playback.
  • Hubs could incorrectly show as offline.
  • [Mobile] App could crash trying to change volume while connected to remote player.

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454

Plex for Android 8.20.0.26486-beta

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

WHATS NEW:

  • Downloads: only show ‘initializing downloads’ subtitle during actual view state sync.
  • [TV] Start initial focus on first hub item with new sidebar.

FIXES:

  • App could crash trying to populate home screen
  • Player: ensure software audio decoder doesn’t exceed the channels supported by the device.
  • TV: darken default application background
  • Player: crash could occur while closing playback with refresh rate switching enabled.
  • Player: improve audio playback.
  • Hubs could incorrectly show as offline.
  • [Mobile] App could crash trying to change volume while connected to remote player. (#19630)

BETA:

  • Fix crash with messaging initialisation happening on Amazon devices.

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455

Plex for Android 8.20.0.26521-beta

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

WHATS NEW:

  • Downloads: only show ‘initializing downloads’ subtitle during actual view state sync.

FIXES:

  • App could crash trying to populate home screen
  • Player: ensure software audio decoder doesn’t exceed the channels supported by the device.
  • TV: darken default application background
  • Player: crash could occur while closing playback with refresh rate switching enabled.
  • Player: improve audio playback.
  • Hubs could incorrectly show as offline.
  • [Mobile] App could crash trying to change volume while connected to remote player.

BETA:

  • Downloads: it wasn’t possible to start new downloads in some scenarios.
  • Fix crash with messaging initialisation happening on Amazon devices.

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456

Plex for Android 8.20.0.26534-beta

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

BETA:

  • Fix crash with Firebase messaging on unsuccessful token retrieval tasks.

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457

Plex for Android 8.21.0.26725-beta

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

FIXES:

  • Crash while multiselecting on devices with api 21.
  • Downloads: app could crash trying to display list of downloads.
  • Core: sidebar might not collapse on empty libraries.
  • Player: app could crash trying to display channel logo during Live TV playback.
  • Player: wrong track playing when selected from play queue.
  • DVR: display error message when trying to modify DVR schedule without permission.
  • Playlists should indicate that server is offline.
  • [Mobile] Auto: returning to the music player from maps would pause playback.

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458

Plex for Android 8.21.0.26754-beta

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

BETA:

  • No user visible changes.

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459

Plex for Android 8.21.0.26901-beta

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

BETA:

  • [Mobile] The app would display progress bars for all movies and episodes.

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460

Plex for Android 8.21.0.26974-beta

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

BETA

  • No user visible changes

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461

Plex for Android 8.22.0.27128-beta

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

FIXES:

  • App would show startup animation everytime it was resumed.
  • Player: update ExoPlayer to v2.14.1.

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462

Plex for Android 8.22.0.27166-beta

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

Internal changes only.

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463

Plex for Android 8.22.0.27303-beta

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

BETA:

  • Player: ensure bandwidth calculations are correct for adaptive streams.

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464

Plex for Android 8.22.0.27327-beta

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

BETA:

  • Preplay: the background was sometimes incorrectly chosen.

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465

Plex for Android 8.22.0.27526-beta

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

BETA:

  • [Mobile] Player: Android Auto and media notifications would not update when switching tracks.

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466

Plex for Android 8.23.0.27576-beta

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

FIXES:

  • Related hubs on details screen would only display 10 items.
  • Audio: prevent crash playing empty play queue.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: show an error when the transcoder crashes.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: could get stuck at initialising.

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