Android (mobile) beta release notes

Plex Players Player Betas
142

Plex for Android 7.5.0.6609-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [Mobile] App could crash while updating enabled types.

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143

Plex for Android 7.6.0.6748-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • [Mobile] Podcasts: swipe to dimiss failed downloads in “Downloads & Sync” screen.
  • [Mobile] Podcasts: improve content displayed in Android Auto.
  • [Mobile] Podcasts: display “Download/Delete” actions in section screen.
  • [Mobile] Podcasts: add support for search podcasts in Android Auto.

FIXES:

  • Live TV: switching channels would fail.
  • Live TV: changing quality would break playback.
  • Align DTS codec display with other clients.
  • App could randomly crash when pausing audio playback
  • [Mobile] Unable to connect to iPhone (Sync) Server.
  • [Mobile] Podcasts: “My Podcasts” displays “Save as smart playlist” button in filters panel.
  • [Mobile] Podcasts: some podcasts could not download.
  • [Mobile] Audio player screen rotation resets playback speed.
  • [Mobile] ‘Synced’ indicator not displayed.
  • [Mobile] Edit photo tag and description options were no longer available.
  • [Mobile] App could crash on some inner screens after rotation on Android 7.0.
  • [Mobile] Podcasts: ‘My Podcasts’ secondary filters don’t work.
  • [Mobile] Respect selection order when creating a Playlist.
  • [Mobile] Podcasts: “Categories” screen displays filtering panel.
  • [Mobile] Podcasts: update “All episodes” list when an item played status changes.
  • [Mobile] Hub management actions panel could appear several time when clicked fast.
  • [Mobile] Sync status screen was empty if device was offline.
  • [Mobile] Sync: better error message when adding an item to sync is not possible.
  • [Mobile] App could crash we coming back from background if it was left in a settings screen.
  • [Mobile] Sync operations could fail when triggered from Plex Web.
  • [Mobile] Remote playback could crash the App when in background on Oreo+ devices.
  • [Mobile] Podcasts “All episodes” screen could flicker when updated.
  • [Mobile] App could crash when audio playback fails.

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144

Plex for Android 7.6.0.6822-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • App crashes when switching users.
  • App could crash checking sync state of an item.
  • App could crash on boot.

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145

Plex for Android 7.6.0.7009-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Changing external subtitles during playback wouldn’t work.

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146

Plex for Android 7.6.0.7042-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Retrying playback from error alert could crash the app.
  • [Mobile] Stream selection wouldn’t work on local videos that weren’t matched.

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147

Plex for Android 7.6.1.7055-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

Internal changes only

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148

Plex for Android 7.6.1.7165-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Camera Upload did not work.

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149

Plex for Android 7.7.0.7305-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • Animate cast icon.
  • Subtitles on-demand: add regional languages.
  • Give new users the ability to select a preferred server on first run.
  • Add option to reset any customizations made to the home screen.
  • Add on-demand subtitles to the video player.
  • [Mobile] Auto: Support skip back and skip forward.
  • [Mobile] Improve cast dialog.
  • [Mobile] Remember last selected type when returning to the app.

FIXES:

  • Podcasts: display “Go to show” action in audio player PQ list overflow menu.
  • Existing purchases could not be restored if phone was in Portuguese or Norwegian.
  • Subtitles on-demand: incorrect language can be set after device rotation.
  • Don’t navigate to new playlists after creating them.
  • App could crash navigating to an item.
  • Camera Upload: automatic upload when photos are taken could not work on Oreo+ devices.
  • Live TV: improve weak signal message.
  • [Mobile] Better error message when trying to sync on a metered WiFi connection.
  • [Mobile] Video player overlay had stopped showing “HW” label.
  • [Mobile] Sync: don’t delete existing content if storage location missing temporarily.
  • [Mobile] Sync: ‘storage limit reached’ error sometimes reported incorrectly.
  • [Mobile] App could crash loading related content in show preplay screen.
  • [Mobile] Do a better job at refreshing the UI after a Sync operation.
  • [Mobile] App would not check for server updates if there was only one server.
  • [Mobile] Offline mode: app would not show offline content while attempting to load from server.
  • [Mobile] Home screen would attempt to load content when offline mode was enabled.
  • [Mobile] Sync: preplays in offline mode could sometimes show the wrong set of actions.
  • [Mobile] Sync automatically if device was on cellular and connects back to WiFi.
  • [Mobile] Sync automatically when ‘use cellular data’ preference is switched on.
  • [Mobile] Display related content in preplay screen.
  • [Mobile] App could crash when entering preplay screen.
  • [Mobile] Subtitles on-demand: subtitles information could be cut-off if the tile was long.
  • [Mobile] Sync: fix bug where synced content could be lost in low connectivity scenarios.
  • [Mobile] Opening the overflow menu on the some devices shifts hub content.
  • [Mobile] Podcasts: opening audio player screen for the second time could reset playback speed.
  • [Mobile] Include server name (or owner name if shared) in source picker when browsing offline.
  • [Mobile] App could crash when selecting a News channel.
  • [Mobile] App could crash on startup.
  • [Mobile] Always include “on this device” subtitle in source picker when browsing offline.
  • [Mobile] On-demand subtitles screen could get scrambled after device rotation.
  • [Mobile] Related content displayed in movie preplay screen.
  • [Mobile] Podcasts: playback of downloaded episodes in online mode ignored the ‘prefer synced content’ preference.

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150

Plex for Android 7.7.0.7387-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Media flags were not being displayed.
  • Add missing strings for Quality selection.
  • App could crash when restored from recents.
  • App could crash on startup.
  • [Mobile] Starting a photo slideshow could fail sometimes.

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151

Plex for Android 7.7.0.7549-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • App could crash when restored from recents.
  • [Mobile] App could crash when returning to the app when News was selected.

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152

Plex for Android 7.7.0.7651-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Crash could occur when attempting playback.
  • [Mobile] App could crash when returning to the app when News was selected.

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153

Plex for Android 7.7.1.7664-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • ExoPlayer v2: ensure software decoder is used after downloading codec.
  • [Mobile] Relay connections would take precendence over local connections.
  • [Mobile] App could end up trying to use an out of date Relay connection.
  • [Mobile] App could crash starting video playback in Android Lollipop.

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154

Plex for Android 7.7.2.7700-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Make sure all users can play Web Shows without restriction.

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155

Plex for Android 7.8.0.7815-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • [Mobile] Long click on a type to show it’s source selector.
  • [Mobile] Show On Tour in artist preplay.

FIXES:

  • On-demand subtitles: improve error messages and add the ability to retry the request.
  • On-demand subtitles: use the stream’s display title instead of its source.
  • Optimize restoring sources on app start.
  • Not all downloaded content could be accessible from Android Auto.
  • Podcasts: fix issue skipping episodes when casting to Chromecast.
  • ExoPlayer v2: resolve issue resulting in the rendering of fully transparent vobsub subtitles.
  • ExoPlayer v2: resolve crash in VobSub rendering.
  • [Mobile] Improve how related content is displayed in preplay screen.
  • [Mobile] App could crash while updating enabled types.
  • [Mobile] Artist preplays could take a long time to load in Android 7.0.
  • [Mobile] Small UI improvements.
  • [Mobile] On-demand subtitles: overriden query gets removed when rotating the device.
  • [Mobile] Fix vertical alignment of source selector text.
  • [Mobile] Signing in as a user without a Plex server could incorrectly result in no hubs error on Home tab.
  • [Mobile] Podcasts would not always load correctly.
  • [Sony Android TV] Fix grey background displayed when playing 21:9 HDR videos.

BETA:

  • App could crash loading content.
  • [Mobile] App could crash navigating to parent item.

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156

Plex for Android 7.8.0.7824-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • App could crash loading content.
  • [Mobile] App could crash navigating to parent item.

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157

Plex for Android 7.8.0.7848-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Podcasts: restore seek forward/back buttons for notifications.

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Beta for the new Audio Player on the Android mobile
158

Plex for Android 7.8.0.7894-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Restore playback speed option for non-podcast content.
  • Music: resolve issue where playback could start muted.
  • [Mobile] Fix potential crash when closing audio player.
  • [Mobile] App could crash starting Episode Preplay.
  • [Mobile] Fix crash when starting music via voice search.
  • [Mobile] Fix crash when opening music activity via remote control.
  • [Mobile] App could crash navigating to content.
  • [Sony Android TV] Revert attempted fix for HDR issue. We’ll continue working on the gray bars displayed for HDR content on these devices.

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Beta for the new Audio Player on the Android mobile
159

Plex for Android 7.8.0.7955-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [Mobile] Improve experience when seeking music remotely.
  • [Mobile] Prevent spinner being displayed when track progresses in the play queue and controlling remote.
  • [Mobile] Prevent crash with lyrics, when progressing to the next track.
  • [Mobile] Search for content once playback started could not work on Android Auto.
  • [Mobile] Lyrics view was cut off on tablets in landscape orientation.
  • [Mobile] Improve reliability of server being notified what track is playing.
  • [Mobile] Prevent possible automatic play/pause loop.
  • [Mobile] Always show the currently playing track on top of the play queue.

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Beta for the new Audio Player on the Android mobile
160

Plex for Android 7.8.0.7983-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [Mobile] Reset seek position when skipping audio tracks.
  • [Mobile] Prevent crash connecting to existing remote audio session.

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161

Plex for Android 7.8.0.8024-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [Mobile] Prevent crash disconnecting from remote player and trying to continue audio playback locally.
  • [Mobile] Prevent crash casting in-progress audio to a remote player.

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