Plex for Android

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Plex for Android 6.9.0

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store, or download the 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:

  • Display hardware transcoding status in video player info overlay.
  • Local playback: text based ASS/SSA subtitle support.
  • Local playback: support for background scanning and thumbnail generation.
  • Support quality selection during Live TV playback.
  • [Mobile] Improve photo timeline view interaction.
  • [Mobile] News: add personalisation screen.
  • [Mobile] Add links to Privacy and Privacy Terms of Service in Advanced Settings screen.
  • [TV] Support Google Assistant integration.

FIXES:

  • Local playback: indefinite spinner could appear when trying to playback from a file explorer.
  • Sync: audio qualities includes an invalid option.
  • Auto: ensure search doesn’t crash when no music is available.
  • Local playback: crash occurred opening files with 250mbps+ bitrates.
  • [Fire TV] Improve home screen recommendations.
  • [Fire TV] Improve performance on video player for Fire TV sticks.
  • [Mobile] Camera Upload: very big files could not be uploaded.
  • [Mobile] Theme music could play in the background after turning the screen off.
  • [Mobile] Application would close when user selection dialog was closed.
  • [Mobile] Camera upload: upload process could get stuck when upload fails.
  • [Mobile] Remove Forgot Password link from the sign up page.
  • [Mobile] Sync: photos could not be synced from timeline view.
  • [Mobile] Camera Roll: would only show up to 200 photo or video items.
  • [Mobile] Improve alignment in filtering options whilst browsing.
  • [Mobile] Various sorting options would always show in descending order.
  • [Mobile] Toggling unwatched would hide type filtering.
  • [Mobile] Improve account settings screen on API 16.
  • [Mobile] Show interlaced video resolution flags in preplay screens.
  • [Mobile] News: crash could occur if quickly clicking items from newscast list.
  • [Mobile] Sort fields in the filter panel cut off last item when selected.
  • [Mobile] Camera Upload: loading initial status of the feature could freeze the app.
  • [Mobile] Hide overflow menu icon on Discover section.
  • [Mobile] Scrolling the grid view right after refreshing could cause endless loading.
  • [Mobile] TV theme could play under music from another app.
  • [Mobile] Home navigation state isn’t preserved when entering other activities.
  • [Mobile] Photos from home hubs where not playing with PMS v1.9.4.
  • [TV] News: show empty message if there are no clips for selected channel / category.
  • [TV] Reload categories when changing preferred news location.
  • [TV] News: part of the title was hidden when toggling mini player.
  • [TV] Opening photo album could not load content after first time.
  • [TV] News: crash could occur when searching focus whilst onboarding hint is shown.
  • [TV] Chapters would not always show when selecting items from the play queue.
  • [TV] News: highlight personalize button when personalization hint is showed.
  • [TV] Improve refresh rate switching.
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Plex for Android 6.10.0

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store, or download the 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:

  • Live: support for seeking back into an on-going recording
  • Local playback: support external ASS/SSA subtitles.
  • [Mobile] News: adds browse by category/channel screen.
  • [TV] Add links to Privacy and Terms of Service in Advanced Settings screen.
  • [TV] News: show channel/topics of the playing video while in fullscreen.
  • [TV] News: channel/topics subscriptions are shown in a dialog.

FIXES:

  • Fix crash on startup when preferences haven’t yet been loaded.
  • Camera Upload: changing user name locks feature access.
  • News: activation dialog displayed when playing News content from search results.
  • News: Unfollow/unmute actions didn’t work correctly.
  • [Mobile] Filters could show up when not supported.
  • [Mobile] Companion: photo player not following remote instance when playing in auto roll mode.
  • [Mobile] News: mini player could incorrectly show News play queue.
  • [Mobile] App could be seen as offline by other Plex clients even with “advertise as server” enabled.
  • [Sync] Rebooting the device could reset the storage location from SD card to internal.
  • [TV] Navigating right in the fullscreen News play queue would cause the focus indicator to disappear.
  • [TV] News: app could crash when returning from search.
  • [TV] “Play video” action visible in overflow menu for video play queue list.
  • [TV] Avoid 25hz, 29hz and 30hz refresh rates when the multiple is available.
  • [TV] “Go to artist” and “Go to album” actions displayed for video content.
  • [TV] Don’t show recent playlists on home screen if there weren’t any recent creations.
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Plex for Android 6.10.1

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store, or download the 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:

  • [TV] Photo player would crash when playing a video.
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Plex for Android 6.10.2

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

FIXES:

  • [Mobile] App could crash when opening video player settings.
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Plex for Android 6.11.0

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store, or download the 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 for Android Oreo notification categories.
  • [Mobile] News: should show hub on home screen.

FIXES:

  • App displays status and navigation bar when TV layout is selected.
  • Crash clicking in “Manage” option in Live TV recording conflict dialog.
  • App could crash when finishing the splash activity.
  • [Mobile] News: display proper information in search results.
  • [Mobile] Sync: support for photo albums.
  • [TV] Crash opening overflow menu in video player when playing last item in Play Queue.
  • [TV] Playlist preplay screen not loading more content correctly.
  • [TV] Hide playlists card if there are no available playlists.
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Plex for Android 6.11.1

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store, or download the 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 on Xiaomi devices and devices with API < 19.
  • [TV] App could crash when closing preplay.
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Plex for Android 6.11.2

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store, or download the 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:

  • Camera Upload App not setting feature owner correctly.
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Plex for Android 6.11.3

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store, or download the 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:

  • Camera Upload App still not setting feature owner correctly.
  • App was crashing on startup on some Xiaomi devices.
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Plex for Android 6.12.0

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store, or download the 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] New photo details screen.
  • [Mobile] Playback speed controls for audio player.
  • [Mobile] Colorize media notifications on Oreo devices.

FIXES:

  • Timeline/jump letter scroll handle doesn’t change color while focused on Android <= 4.4.
  • Improve quality in photo player.
  • [Mobile] App would crash when browsing queue after adding and item using “Play next”.
  • [Mobile] Moving items up in the recording schedule don’t get them in the right positions.
  • [Mobile] Show camera roll media setting no longer resets when app is started cold.
  • [TV] Videos in photo libraries sometimes not working second time they are played.
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Plex for Android 6.13.0

Available on Google Play or download the 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:

  • Brand new video player with more direct play capabilities and improvements.

FIXES:

  • Live TV: improve seeking.
  • Camera Upload: switch in preference screen is disabled.
  • Some Xiaomi devices still crashing after stopping video play.
  • Video playback stops when using “Convert automatically” preference in video player.
  • Don’t display “Updating Player Support” if not required.
  • [Fire TV] Improve support for multi-channel AAC for 2nd gen and newer devices.
  • [Fire TV] Support for passthrough on all Fire TV devices except the Fire TV 4K (2nd gen).
  • [Mobile] Music channels were failing to play.
  • [Mobile] Filtering by Season would not show layout toggle icon.
  • [Mobile] News: starting playback from home content doesn’t work as expected.
  • [Mobile] “Program Guide” sometimes crashes when coming from a photos library.
  • [Mobile] Mini player resets the progress bar when paused.
  • [TV] Prevent issues when playing an item already being played in PiP.
  • [TV] App could crash when resuming library section screen.
  • [TV] Subscriptions couldn’t be toggled from news settings.
  • [TV] PMS configuration on SHIELD devices crashes if the process fails.
  • [TV] Prevent playback restarting for DTS-HD content on some setups.
  • [TV] Crash opening search activity if speech recogniser is not available in device.
  • [TV] App could crash accessing Settings screen.
  • [TV] The top line of news title could be cut off while fullscreen.
  • [TV] “Read more” would not fill the screen when expanded.
  • [TV] Show screen would incorrecly show “Seasons” title when “Hide for Single season” was enabled.
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Plex for Android 6.13.1

Available on Google Play or download the 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] Skip News videos doesn’t work.
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Plex for Android 6.13.2

Available on Google Play or download the 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:

  • ExoPlayer v2: improve playback of MPEG2 video.
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Plex for Android 6.13.3

Available on Google Play or download the 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:

  • ExoPlayer v2: fix memory leak resulting in poor playback performance.
  • [News] : Improve speed to start playback.
  • [TV] Skipping an Ad in News breaks fullscreen OSD.
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Plex for Android 6.13.4

Available on Google Play or download the 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:

  • ExoPlayer v2: fix crash when attempting to play a video.
  • ExoPlayer v2: fix temporary deadlock when exiting a video or changing qualities.
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Plex for Android 6.13.5

Available on Google Play or download the 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:

  • ExoPlayer v2: improve performance when playing video.
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Plex for Android 6.13.6

Available on Google Play or download the 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:

  • ExoPlayer v2: fix frame drop during video playback.
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Plex for Android 6.13.7

Available on Google Play, or download the APK: armv7a, arm64v8a, x86 (Plex Pass required). Now available on the Amazon App Store.

FIXES:

  • ExoPlayer v2: fix playback of image based subtitles.
  • ExoPlayer v2: fix playback when performing seeks in quick succession, when using either the software video or audio decoders.
  • [TV] Video player controls are not updated correctly and actions from them don’t produce any effect.
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Plex for Android 6.14.0

Available on Google Play.

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

WHATS NEW:

  • Support for compressed VobSub subtitles.

FIXES:

  • Camera Upload: error message displayed could not have proper format.
  • ExoPlayer v2: improve seeking performance.
  • ExoPlayer v2: support for PCM 8bit, 24bit and 32bit playback.
  • ExoPlayer v2: ensure software decoding isn’t downmixed to stereo.
  • [Fire TV] Video playback keeps visible even when quick actions menu is displayed.
  • [Mobile] Splash screen won’t disappear after Google Assistant search.
  • [Mobile] Some settings are not saved properly.
  • [Mobile] Playback screen wasn’t reflecting updates while connected to remote player.
  • [Mobile] Improve remote device discovery.
  • [News] : Improve speed to start playback.
  • [TV] Improve Live TV backgrounds.
  • [TV] Focus could move to non-visible view in library section grid.
  • [TV] Finishing a video doesn’t update item state across app.
  • [TV] Don’t display resume dialog for an item already playing in Picture in Picture mode.
  • [TV] App could crash retreiving the current volume on NVIDIA SHIELD.
  • [TV] Preplay action button background was too dark.

DOWNLOAD APK (Plex Pass required):

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Plex for Android 6.14.1

Available on Google Play. 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.

FIXES:

  • ExoPlayer v2: configure MediaCodec decoders correctly on devices like the Fire TV.
  • ExoPlayer v2: ensure software decoding detects the available PCM channels correctly.

DOWNLOAD APK (Plex Pass required):

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Plex for Android 6.15.0

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:

  • Local Playback: support for Plex Companion and Chromecast, including on-device audio transcoding.

FIXES:

  • External subtitles are now tagged correctly.
  • ExoPlayer v2: direct play could fail with certain external subtitles.
  • [Mobile] Continue watching hub was being displayed incorrectly.
  • [Mobile] Collection hub names are missing on pre-play.
  • [Mobile] Update text for login with email to avoid confusions.
  • [TV] Improve recording priority reordering.
  • [TV] App could crash when filtering by resolution.
  • [TV] Keep video player open whilst screensaver is active.

DOWNLOAD APK (Plex Pass required):