Android (mobile) beta release notes

Plex Players Player Betas
567

Plex for Android 9.9.0.35384-beta

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

BETA:

  • Player: prevent crash when tuning into Live TV with subtitles enabled.

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568

Plex for Android 9.9.0.35432-beta

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

BETA:

  • Player: prevent crash when a playback error occurs with Live TV.
  • Player: allow play from start on Live TV to correctly start from the beginning.
  • Player: skipping to the next episode would show the old episode as a title.

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569

Plex for Android 9.9.0.35492-beta

Internal changes only.

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

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570

Plex for Android 9.10.0.35737-beta

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

WHATS NEW:

  • Search: improved way to display recent searches.
  • [Mobile] Discover Together: the onboarding flow now allows users to swipe between screens.

FIXES:

  • Player: correctly select tracks on future content in a play queue.
  • Display old “added at” dates correctly in card subtitles.
  • Player: moving back to the guide could crash during Live TV playback.
  • Search: include photo tags in results.
  • Search: navigating to some results could fail randomly.
  • Search: deal correctly with photo album results.
  • Player: improved Google Assistant integration to allow playback controls.
  • [Mobile] Profile: prevent writing in the middle of a text field if the character limit has been reached.
  • [Mobile] Preplay: background art was not shown for Discover items sometimes.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: hide subtitle search for downloaded items due to lack of support.
  • [Mobile] LiveTV: FAST channels from search results would not tune.
  • [Mobile] The app would close when a user profile loading error occured.

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571

Plex for Android 9.10.0.35838-beta

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

BETA:

  • Update dependency that was causing a crash on older devices.
  • [Mobile] Improve home screen experience

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572

Plex for Android 9.10.0.35867-beta

Internal changes only.

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

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573

Plex for Android 9.10.1.36037-beta

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

FIXES:

  • [Mobile] Ensure users can authenticate with Facebook.

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574

Plex for Android 9.11.0.36101-beta

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

WHATS NEW:

  • Add Media Libraries hub to universal people preplay screen.
  • [Mobile] Player: differentiate Plex Companion and Chromecast targets.

FIXES:

  • LiveTV: channel logo would not show during playback.
  • LiveTV: favorite channels to be removed properly on manage favorites screen.
  • Stream selection in detail pages could be ignored sometimes.
  • Player: switching refresh rate or resolution would cause playback to get stuck on Chromecast with Google TV devices.
  • Search: include genres in “Free on Demand” results.
  • Search: Make sure long song titles don’t override source titles.
  • [Mobile] Granting media access would not work.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: stream selection didn’t work on details screen of ‘Downloads’ source.
  • [Mobile] Download: download limit wrongfully defaults to 0.

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575

Plex for Android 9.11.0.36219-beta

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

FIXES:

  • Make sure that “Remove from Continue Watching” is included in context menus.
  • Prevent unnecessary network requests made by the app.

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576

Plex for Android 9.11.0.36242-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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577

Plex for Android 9.11.0.36281-beta

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

BETA:

  • Fix an issue in the Android manifest that prevented the app from being released.

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578

Plex for Android 9.11.0.36352-beta

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

FIXES:

  • [Mobile] People Pages: don’t show filmography to managed users.
  • [Mobile] App could crash when receiving a Discover Together notification.

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579

Plex for Android 9.11.1.36473-beta

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

TV changes only.

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580

Plex for Android 9.11.1.36538-beta

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

FIXES:

  • [Mobile] Downloads: ‘library’ tab doesn’t show downloaded content.

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581

Plex for Android 9.12.0.36630-beta

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

FIXES:

  • Prefer playlist thumb when available.
  • Player: correctly select automatic subtitle selection when playing videos with multiple versions.
  • Player: ensure seek previews are visible for TV episodes.
  • App could crash randomly at launch.
  • App could crash opening certain sections.
  • Player: prevent crash updating UI elements when player is closing.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: cancelling a direct download doesn’t stop the downloading of the file.
  • [Mobile] Sort options could get disabled in library filters panel.
  • [Mobile] Platform: WatchTogether hub would fail to load on home screen.

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582

Plex for Android 9.12.0.36662-beta

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

BETA:

  • Fix subtitle selection in Movies & Shows detail pages.
  • Fix potential crash on start up.

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583

Plex for Android 9.12.0.36793-beta

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

BETA:

  • Show “Remove from My TIDAL” action when appropriate.

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584

Plex for Android 9.13.0.36986-beta

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

FIXES:

  • Player: prevent crash when switching to Live TV guide.
  • Player: prevent crashes when closing the player.
  • [Mobile] Platform: Download progress badge size was too small.
  • [Mobile] Support audio stream selection in Movies & Shows detail pages.

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585

Plex for Android 9.13.0.37059-beta

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

BETA:

  • Don’t show Discover source as selected in sidebar when Home source is selected.

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586

Plex for Android 9.13.0.37127-beta

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

BETA:

  • App could crash at startup.

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