Plex for Android 8.0.0
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:
- Player: direct play subtitles even when transcoding audio or video.
- [TV] Live TV: Amazon Fire TV Stick 4k users can now disable transcode of interlaced streams.
- [TV] Browse and play Plex Movies & TV without creating an account.
- [TV] Updated layouts for Home, Recommended, and Library screens.
FIXES:
- Player: Play progress would sometimes not be reported to the server.
- Prevent crash starting video playback if audio is still playing.
- There were still some scenarios in which the Home screen could take a long time to load.
- Ensure unclaimed server content is displayed (on devices on the same network).
- SHIELD PMS: ‘move storage location’ could fail sometimes.
- Player: ensure backward seeks go to the correct location when transcoding.
- Player: prevent crash on LG devices when extracting libraries.
- [Mobile] Prevent battery drain when app is left in background after playing music.
- [Mobile] Podcasts: cancelling a download could result in an error notification.
- [TV] App could crash when using the play button on preplays.
- [TV] Player: delay stopping playback when HDMI disconnection is detected.
- [TV] Click user from the sidebar opens user picker or sign in screen.
- [TV] Move Settings to the bottom of the sidebar.
- [TV] Player: “next” action could not be displayed as enabled when audio playback is started.
- [TV] Player: prevent crash using subtitle search on some TV devices.
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