Plex for Android

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Plex for Android 5.5.0

Available on Google Play
Download APK: armv7a, x86 (Plex Pass required)

Will be available on the Amazon App Store soon

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

WHATS NEW:

  • Improve Search UI for tablets.

FIXES:

  • App could crash after sorting a music library by release date.
  • Make sure ‘Reset Camera Upload’ action clears all associated preferences.
  • Returning to audio player after playing a music video could crash the app.
  • Improve error message shown by Camera Upload screen when selected server becomes unreachable.
  • The grid that shows all items from a given “Genre” was missing the title.
  • Make fast-scroller smoother on libraries with few items.
  • Hide audio preferences which are known to not be available when default video player enabled.
  • Improve efficiency in Camera Upload process.
  • [Android TV] Fix styling of “Play Version” dialog.
  • [Android TV] App could crash populating the “Reviews” section of a movie preplay screen.
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Plex for Android 5.6.0

Available on Google Play
Download APK: armv7a, arm64v8a, x86 (Plex Pass required)
NOTE: We are performing a staged rollout, which means the update may take a day or two before it becomes available.

WHATS NEW:

  • Support “Original” quality when syncing music.
  • Add preference to disable discovery of AirPlay players on the network.
  • Display media flags for locally synced content.
  • ARM64v8a support.
  • [Mobile] App shortcuts available for devices running Android 7.1.
  • [Android TV] Hide “Next” and “Previous” buttons on preplays when no siblings are available.

FIXES:

  • Don’t show Plex Pass Upsell screen when user that’s not a server admin tries to enable Camera Upload.
  • App could crash when requesting storage permission on devices running Android 6+.
  • App crashed when removing something from the Play Queue and then closing the player.
  • Friends list incorrectly reports no friends when offline.
  • Fix random crash during long sync operations.
  • App could crash when enabling Camera Upload after First Run Wizard.
  • Hide overflow menu when no available actions.
  • App was no longer displaying unwatched count on TV season and show posters.
  • [Android TV] Improve default background image.
  • [Android TV] Selecting a home screen recommendation and then going “back” no longer closes the app.
  • [Android TV] Photo player was jumping to next item after 5 seconds for video.
  • [Android TV] Fix issue with “Update Library” action in recent versions of PMS.
  • [Android TV] Shuffle and lyrics button overlap when choosing “Play next” on new item.
  • [Android TV] Search UI wasn’t displayed for channels that allow it.
  • [TV] Fix problem where playback could start unexpectedly or play the wrong item
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Plex for Android 5.6.1

Available on Google Play
Download APK: armv7a, arm64v8a, x86 (Plex Pass required)
NOTE: We are performing a staged rollout, which means the update may take a day or two before it becomes available.

WHATS NEW:

FIXES:

  • App would fail to start on arm64v8a devices running Android 5.0.
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Plex for Android 5.7.0

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App StoreDownload APK: armv7a, arm64v8a, x86 (Plex Pass required)
NOTE: We are performing a staged rollout, which means the update may take a day or two before it becomes available.

WHATS NEW:

  • ‘Play Next’ action in context menu of Play Queue items.
  • [Android TV] Add “Usage statistics” preference in settings screen.
  • [Android TV] Hide title for photos in grids.
  • [Mobile] Sign-in: Add Forgot Password link.

FIXES:

  • Improve error message when trying to open an already deleted item.
  • Thumbnail inside Camera Upload settings could become distorted.
  • Showing lyrics when shuffling music content would crash the app.
  • Improve direct play support for channel content.
  • Ignore additional input when refresh is in progress.
  • Post-play screen could crash trying to play next item.
  • [Android TV] Switching servers after a playback error doesn’t go back to home.
  • [Android TV] Rapidly pressing ‘stop’ on audio player would crash the app.
  • [Android TV] Highlighted and checked radio buttons would have the same color as the background.
  • [Android TV] Fix crash resuming audio player when play queue was cleared.
  • [Android TV] Photo search results could fail to open when available in multiple locations.
  • [Android TV] Remove Sony AC3 & EAC3 bitrate limitation for devices running Android 6.0+.
  • [Android TV] Watch status in home screen not updating after autoplay.
  • [Android TV] Refresh selected subtitle and audio streams in preplays after playback.
  • [Android TV] App could crash when resumed after having been in the background for a while.
  • [Mobile] Don’t show ‘Rating’ or ‘Add to Playlist’ action in audio player for channel items.
  • [Mobile] Rotating the device would cause photo grids to stop working properly.
  • [Mobile] Show ‘Plex Mix’ action in audio player when available for current track.
  • [Mobile] Fix enabling repeat one and tapping next does not update the playback screen.
  • [Mobile] Don’t display warning when starting application in Airplane Mode.
  • [Mobile] Mini-player caused home screen to shift down on Android 7.
  • [Mobile] ‘Play Next’ option could be available after clearing the current Play Queue.
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Plex for Android 5.7.1

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store
Download APK: armv7a, arm64v8a, x86 (Plex Pass required)
NOTE: We are performing a staged rollout, which means the update may take a day or two before it becomes available.

FIXES:

  • Playing big photo albums was taking long.
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Plex for Android 5.7.2

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store
Download APK: armv7a, arm64v8a, x86 (Plex Pass required)

FIXES:

  • Improve Photo Player performance by loading photos based on device screen size.
  • [Android TV] The background selection would affect performance on big libraries.
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Plex for Android 5.8.0

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store Download APK: armv7a, arm64v8a, x86 (Plex Pass required)
NOTE: We are performing a staged rollout, which means the update may take a day or two before it becomes available.

WHATS NEW:

  • Changes to ‘Video quality’ during playback now only apply to the item being played.

FIXES:

  • Always show real codec name in video player information overlay when Direct Play not supported.
  • [Android TV] Video player crashes when seeking after end of video is reached.
  • [Android TV] Fix video player subtitle when playing local music videos.
  • [Android TV] Some portrait photos might appear rotated.
  • [Mobile] Tapping ‘Undo’ after removing a Play Queue item sometimes didn’t work.
  • [Mobile] ‘Sync’ action would be missing when opening an item from search.
  • [Mobile] Video player didn’t respect screen rotation lock when playing remotely.
  • [Mobile] Keyboard “Done” action should submit form on Plex account sign up screen.
  • [Mobile] Resolve issue where home screen would automatically refresh when initially loaded.
  • [Mobile] Audio player screen couldn’t be opened from mini player if the artist had no album cover.
  • [Mobile, Android TV] Item in multiple libraries doesn’t show library name if search matches title exactly.
  • [Mobile, Android TV] Improve embedded subtitle selection if stream types were mixed.
  • [Mobile, Android TV] Fix a number of issues restarting the app and restoring the previously selected server.
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Plex for Android 5.9.0

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App StoreDownload APK: armv7a, arm64v8a, x86 (Plex Pass required)
NOTE: We are performing a staged rollout, which means the update may take a day or two before it becomes available.

WHATS NEW:

  • Direct play support for MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 audio.
  • Move Camera Upload restart setting to Camera Upload settings screen.

FIXES:

  • Speed up application launch when unpacking native libraries.
  • Location screen entries could display inaccurate state information when device is offline.
  • Some anamorphic videos could play with wrong aspect ratio.
  • Fix issue where app could not behave correctly after storage permission is denied forever by user.
  • [Android TV] Selecting a a photo album in search results would sometimes lead to an empty grid.
  • [Android TV] Timeline would reset to first position when scrolling up first time using scroller bar.
  • [Android TV] Timeline scroller could be out of the edge of the screen for some TVs.
  • [Mobile] Application could crash if left on the background while viewing a photo album.
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Plex for Android 5.9.1

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App StoreDownload APK: armv7a, arm64v8a, x86 (Plex Pass required)
NOTE: We are performing a staged rollout, which means the update may take a day or two before it becomes available.

FIXES:

  • App could crash when syncing video item.
  • [Android TV] Opening settings screen could crash the app.
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Plex for Android 5.9.2

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store
Download APK: armv7a, arm64v8a, x86 (Plex Pass required)
NOTE: We are performing a staged rollout, which means the update may take a day or two before it becomes available.

FIXES:

  • [Android TV] Opening settings screen could still crash the app.
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Plex for Android 5.9.3

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store
Download APK: armv7a, arm64v8a, x86 (Plex Pass required)

FIXES:

  • Update dependency loading on Android <4.3 and resolve startup crash.
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Plex for Android 5.10.0

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store
Download APK: armv7a, arm64v8a, x86 (Plex Pass required)

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

WHATS NEW:

  • [Mobile] Improved global quality settings screen.
  • [Android TV] Support for Live TV and DVR management
  • Support jump letter scrolling when sorting titles in descending order.
  • Multi-selection support for playlist selection.

FIXES:

  • Show better warning message when ‘Delete’ action selected.
  • Extras now play correctly if selected server is insecure.
  • Upgrade ExoPlayer to r1.5.16.
  • [Mobile] Creating a Play Queue when connected to a remote player could crash the app.
  • [Mobile] App could crash when accessing Locations screen if no server was selected yet.
  • [Mobile] Playback time was cut-off when longer than 1 hour.
  • [Android TV] Filters were refined even when only one filter can be selected at a time.
  • [Android TV] Selected sort in a library was not remembered.
  • [Android TV] Photos in folder view could not be played.
  • [TV] App could be restarted when waking app from screensaver while video playback was paused.
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Plex for Android 5.10.1

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store
Download APK: armv7a, arm64v8a, x86 (Plex Pass required)

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

FIXES:

  • [Mobile] App crashed when selecting multiple photos from an album view.
  • [Mobile] App could crash when opening playback settings screen.
  • [Android TV] App crashed when playing video content in devices running Android <6.
  • [Android TV] App could crash trying to restart video playback.
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Plex for Android 5.10.2

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store
Download APK: armv7a, arm64v8a, x86 (Plex Pass required)

FIXES:

  • Changes to “Use External Player” preference were not properly applied.
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Plex for Android 5.10.3

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store
Download APK: armv7a, arm64v8a, x86 (Plex Pass required)

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

FIXES:

  • Crash playing back videos with no known tracks.
  • [Mobile] Subtitle selection in Playback Settings screen would not appear when playing content remotely.
  • [Mobile] Crash selecting “Sync” action in preplay screen for video content.
  • [Mobile] Crash opening Playback Settings screen.
  • [Android TV] Crash searching in Program Guide with channel search enabled.
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Plex for Android 6.0.1

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store
Download APK: armv7a, arm64v8a, x86 (Plex Pass required)

WHATS NEW:

  • Plex for Android can now open any video file from your device’s storage or SD card with our brand new player. Play MP4, MKV, AVI, WMV, and more – without a server.

FIXES:

  • [Mobile] Crash displaying Playback Settings screen for devices running Android < 6.
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Plex for Android 6.1.0

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App StoreDownload APK: armv7a, arm64v8a, x86 (Plex Pass required)

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

WHATS NEW:

  • [Android TV] Improve global quality settings for video and audio.
  • [Mobile] Video playback support in multi-window mode.
  • [Mobile] Move “Folders” View to filters panel.
  • [Mobile] Server update notification and automatic upgrade.
  • [TV] Ability to remove tracks from a play queue and items from a playlist.
  • [TV] Browsing photos and videos that are on a mobile device is no longer supported. Casting (flinging) photos and videos from the device to the TV app still works.
  • [TV] Update minimum server version to 0.9.16.0 to align with Plex Web.

FIXES:

  • Warning message shown before deleting a playlist had misleading text.
  • [Android TV] Library sections were incorrectly being fetched without pagination from PMS.
  • [Android TV] ‘Passthrough’ warning dialog had incorrect ‘Error’ title.
  • [Android TV] App could stop displaying OSD actions after dismissing video quality selector.
  • [Local Playback] Playback videos in correct rotation.
  • [Local Playback] Crash determining language name on Android 4.4.2.
  • [Local Playback] Allow player support update whilst a headset is connected.
  • [Local Playback] Ignore videos from hidden folders, and folders containing “.nomedia”.
  • [Local Playback] Improve reliability when opening videos from 3rd party applications.
  • [Local Playback] Improve handling of preplay when opened with a HTTP link without a filename.
  • [Local Playback] Resolve crash releasing input buffers.
  • [Local Playback] MPEG videos failed to appear in video list.
  • [Local Playback] Crash during OpenGL ES surface start on x86
  • [Mobile] Enable multi-selection on timeline view.
  • [Mobile] “Show all” button in quality settings screen could not work on devices running Android < 7.
  • [Mobile] Crash on startup loading native libraries.
  • [Mobile] Folders not being displayed in photo libraries.
  • [Mobile, Android TV] Don’t crash when attempting to play some channel content.
  • [TV] Trying to exit the app would sometimes crash it.
  • [TV] Increase application startup timeout to give slow starting devices / situations more time.
  • [TV] If server found after displaying startup failure screen, close the screen automatically.
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Plex for Android 6.1.1

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store
Download APK: armv7a, arm64v8a, x86 (Plex Pass required)
NOTE: We are performing a staged rollout, which means the update may take a day or two before it becomes available.

FIXES:

  • App could crash if used without signing in.
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Plex for Android 6.1.2

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store
Download APK: armv7a, arm64v8a, x86 (Plex Pass required)

FIXES:

  • Navigating home or changing servers could crash the App.
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Plex for Android 6.1.3

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store
Download APK: armv7a, arm64v8a, x86 (Plex Pass required)

FIXES:

  • [Local Playback] Support playback via new player support package.