Plex for Android

Plex for Android 7.28.0

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store.

NOTE: We are performing a staged rollout, which means the update may take a day or two before it becomes available.

WHATS NEW:

  • [TV] Source settings added to a new overflow menu in the top bar.
  • [TV] Border added to currently focused item in settings.

FIXES:

  • Android Auto: fix issue where playback could crash under certain circumstances.
  • App could crash when adding a new user if plex home was not set up.
  • Player: improve playback performance on low memory devices.
  • Live TV: force transcoding of unsupported interlaced content on Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K.
  • Live TV: fix issue preventing transcode of video.
  • Player: reduce buffer size to improve playback on lower end devices.
  • Player: prevent crash when searching for subtitles.
  • Artist Radio Play Queues don’t contain tracks from shared sources.
  • Playback: fix issue preventing WMA support.
  • Live TV: fix unable to record show if selecting library to save recording to.
  • Playback didn’t work on versions of Plex Media Server older than 1.10.
  • Offline “Playlists” tab was missing.
  • Live TV: ensure recorded live TV uses new player.
  • Make sure same home hubs from different servers show right content.
  • Improve how related content is displayed in preplay screens.
  • Server claiming prompt was missing for signed out servers on local network.
  • “All episodes” view was formatted incorrectly for TV shows.
  • Live TV: improve channel ordering fallbacks on TV guide for XMLTV users.
  • [Mobile] Don’t scroll back to the top when rotating on the recommended screen.
  • [Mobile] Display playback speed slider for synced music.
  • [Mobile] Hide inapplicable actions in folder view.
  • [Mobile] Ensure tab bar is visible when opening a new source.
  • [Mobile] Playback from related content could not work.
  • [Mobile] Edit home screen action removed from hubs (still available in home menu).
  • [Mobile] Sorts were not always restored.
  • [Mobile] Playback: don’t display unsupported options when casting video.
  • [Mobile] Under specific circunstances, starting playback from a Playlist item could only contain selected item.
  • [Mobile] App could fail to restore the last Play Queue played.
  • [TV] Clear the zero state when backing out of an empty folder view.
  • [TV] Live TV: fix a potential crash in the recording schedule.
  • [TV] Improve sidebar scrolling vertically.
  • [TV] Filter buttons would sometimes crop when there is no items.
  • [TV] Tabs would not always show if there was no items.
  • [TV] Hub items are no longer cut off while scrolling. (Part of #14741)
  • [TV] Don’t reload the same source when we only have 1 tab and remember selected tab is off.
  • [TV] Focus no longer jumps from Sort to Tabs.
  • [TV] News: fix crash when navigating to “channels” from the browse section.
  • [TV] Center text under settings cards.

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