After an intial play around with the new app on Android mobile, I must say that I don’t mind the new UI on my mobile device. I like the navigation icons being moved to the bottom of the screen rather than having the side bar in portrait mode. It will be interesting to see how it looks on tablets and TVs in a bigger format landscape mode.
Like others, I’d like the ability to be able to unpin On Demand and Discover from the navigation bar and replace them with my two primary libraries which I access more often.
The libraries button is nice, but I’d like to be able navigate directly to the specific library that I want directly from the home screen, rather than having to select the libraries icon and then change it to the one I specifically want to browse. I note that once you’re in the libraries screen, hitting the library button again brings up a menu to select from a list of your favourite libraries. This introduces multiple steps compared to the current Plex app to navigate to a library.
I can understand the need to keep the navigation bar compact on a mobile device in portrait mode, but on a large screen I want to be able to add my favourite libraries so that I can navigate directly to them.
I’ve also noticed that while there is an option to reorder the libraries, it doesn’t appear to work on my mobile device.
The player is slimmed down compared to the current and is missing some functionality which I coudn’t see in the documentation but may be coming under the advanced player features:
Can’t skip forward or back 10/30 seconds and can’t configure this
Playback info is missing which makes it harder to troubleshoot problems with the player as you have no indication on the device whether its direct playing, playing from local, using HW transcoding, etc.
Doesn’t allow to select specific version to play back where you have multiple versions of the same show/movie in your library.
I actually think this overhaul is fantastic except it isn’t showing my Music library anymore. Plexamp is fine and all, and I understand the idea behind keeping them separate, but it’s also just really convenient to have all my media in one place in the main Plex app.
Even if it was a hidden setting to enable it somewhere, I’d like to have the option to play music in the main app as well.
I like it on my phone, but I really like it when using the native app Android TV/Google TV. The fact that it isn’t there in the mobile app makes me feel like it’ll me removed from the TV app at some point too which would be cumbersome.
Regarding the Libraries being at the bottom and then switching between them at the top… I think that it would maybe be nice if I could hold the Libraries button at the bottom and then simply slide my thumb/finger up to switch between Movies, TV Shows, Music (like a little menu popping up when I slide up on Libraries). I think that would pretty much solve that little issue.
I can’t see my TV antenna’s channel guide anywhere, or browse for upcoming things that I want to record, and that is the main reason that I use Plex (and the reason I paid for the lifetime pass). Is this being added soon, being removed, or am I simply not seeing it?
When scrolling through my movie library, theres no quick way to jump to the bottom or to a specific letter, like what’s possible with the current version of Plex stable release. That definitely needs to come back.
When you’re in the library view, selecting the Libraries button at the bottom does pop up the menu, it just doesn’t do it on the home screen (would be good if it did).
That local FTA TV isn’t implemented yet and is noted as a coming feature.
I’ve also noticed that while there is an option to reorder the libraries, it doesn’t appear to work on my mobile device.
Could you report this as a bug? That definitely should work, and is also how the homepage libraries are ordered so it’s pretty important.
The libraries button is nice, but I’d like to be able navigate directly to the specific library that I want directly from the home screen, rather than having to select the libraries icon and then change it to the one I specifically want to browse. I note that once you’re in the libraries screen, hitting the library button again brings up a menu to select from a list of your favourite libraries. This introduces multiple steps compared to the current Plex app to navigate to a library.
Yeah that implementation isn’t what we wanted to ship, but we ended up with a last-minute bug so we went with what worked. But what we want to do is have that My Libraries button at the bottom be longpressable and pop up that same menu from for one-handed access from anywhere. Hopefully this will be in one of our first updates.
Also, just wanted to confirm that all of the player features you mentioned will be coming soon.
“The libraries button is nice, but I’d like to be able navigate directly to the specific library that I want directly from the home screen, rather than having to select the libraries icon and then change it to the one I specifically want to browse. I note that once you’re in the libraries screen, hitting the library button again brings up a menu to select from a list of your favourite libraries. This introduces multiple steps compared to the current Plex app to navigate to a library.”
Especially agree with this. Based on designsystemsguy’s reply above that the button will become long pressable, I’m not sure how much better that makes it, and I wonder what it will be like on TVs.
The reordering on iOS definitely works but it’s rather hard to actually ‘grab’ the library to move it. Takes me a few goes to actually move them around.
@kesawi try pressing and holding on the icon on the right when you go to ‘recorder’. This seems to then select it for you to be able to move libraries around.
As I’m using gestures on my Samsung Galaxy S22, I find anything which requires dragging on the right hand side of the screen can be problematic as it either activates the One UI side bar or the back navigation action.
Turns out it’s not a big, just me not appreciating how that function works. However, note my comment above about using navigation gestures on Samsung and that the Plex UI should avoid anything that requires actions (E.g. swiping, dragging, etc.) near the edge on the right hand side of the screen.
I thought that was likely the case. Appreciate that it is a work in progress and will evolve over time as you continue development of it.
Thanks for taking the time to respond, it’s great as a user to get that prompt feedback from Plex staff. There’s a lot of love for Plex and it shows that you’re taking user feedback seriously which will hopefully help to counter some of the panic that happens in sections of the user base everytime there’s a major change.
Looking forward to seeing how it looks in large format on TVs.
Live tv and On Demand needs to be able to be deleted from the navigation bar. I’m never going to use it.
On demand and free movies need to not ever appear on my home if I don’t select them. I’m a paying user, stop pushing that to my home. It’s not going to happen. Ever.
Deleting them in the Online Media Sources settings is great, but like the OP had mentioned, it would be better if we could replace them with shortcuts to our actual libraries.
The long press on Library from Home to select a server helps, but it still wouldn’t be as fast as simply clicking over to them. For my personal use case, I would greatly appreciate being able to click between my libraries (or at least a couple) on the navigation bar.
I don’t disagree. But there are folks who aren’t aware of the option to disable them at the account level and thus remove them from the interface. No reason not to share that information .
I don’t understand how we couldn’t have the LEFT MENU remain for LIBRARIES only. I understand it’s how PlexAmp is setup but the use case for the LIBRARIES could have remained as a swipe menu on the left. I demonstrated this with the menu put back where it should still belong.
I completely agree, and I’m glad that you shared that information (sorry if replying to you made that unclear). I was only replying to you to ensure that any staff that were reading through the threads didn’t think it was the complaint was moot or the issue was resolved because of the ability to hide those buttons.
But you’re absolutely right; hiding that information is very useful, and it’s something that many seem to be unaware of. It was a good call to share that info.
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