Plex for Android

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Plex for Android 8.8.0

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:

  • Bump the minimum supported Plex Media Server version to 1.15.2.
  • Player: support for Dolby Vision in MKV.
  • Player: Live TV is no longer supported in the old player.
  • [Mobile] Tweak appearance of cards.
  • [TV] Player: Add the channel logo to player UI during Live TV playback

FIXES:

  • Last selected tab within a source was remembered across users.
  • Populate the home screen faster.
  • [Mobile] Search didn’t return any results from downloaded content.
  • [Mobile] Sign in with Google on devices without Google Play Services would fail.
  • [Mobile] Fix crash that could appear performing a search right after opening app.
  • [Mobile] Elements in photo “Timeline” section could display incorrect component.
  • [Mobile] App could crash playing an item if “Use external player” preference is enabled.
  • [TV] Sidebar was not open by default when app started cold.
  • [TV] Photo albums could display incorrectly.
  • [TV] Grid collection could display misaligned items under certain circumstances.
  • [TV] Preplay actions could lose focus when screen was reloading.
  • [TV] Language selection wouldn’t work from inside the player when searching for subtitles.
  • [TV] Live TV: the app could crash if scrolling the TV guide while new data is loading.

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Plex for Android 8.8.1

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.

FIXES:

  • Navigation: app could crash when navigating between sections.
  • App could crash when performing search.
  • Player: ensure player closes when the audio queue finishes.
  • [Mobile] Sync: app could crash on launch after syncing content (#17920).

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Plex for Android 8.8.2

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.

FIXES:

  • Billing: better way to deal with some errors during a subscription purchase.
  • [Mobile] Home: hubs were missing the context menu when Manual Home enabled.
  • [Mobile] The app would crash when entering a shared source

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Plex for Android 8.9.0

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] Preplay: show a label on HDR content.
  • [TV] Player: support for audio fading, boosting voices, loudness leveling and shortening silences for music and postcast.

FIXES:

  • Player: don’t seek to the very end when playing Live TV from PMS.
  • [TV] Preplay: 2K videos were incorrectly labelled as SD instead of HD.
  • [TV] Preplay: prevent theme music from briefly playing in another preplay.
  • [TV] Player: bring advanced audio playback features.
  • [TV] Results could display incorrectly when using Android TV Google Assistant search.

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Plex for Android 8.9.1

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.

FIXES:

  • Downloads: app could crash downloading a show if there was a different download in progress.
  • App could crash trying to show ‘start from offset’ dialog before playback.

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Plex for Android 8.9.2

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.

FIXES:

  • [TV] Sign In: app could crash displaying the sign in screen on devices running Android < 6.

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Plex for Android 8.10.0

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:

  • Preplay: add “Play from Start” action.
  • [TV] Preplay: use grid for collection Preplay.
  • [TV] Focused cards now have a border accent.

FIXES:

  • Player: prevent the postplay from keeping the screen awake indefinitely.
  • Libraries under More are now ordered ordered alphabetically.
  • [Mobile] Live TV: movies would fail to tune if cinema trailers were enabled.
  • [Mobile] Preplay: layout on tablets was misaligned.
  • [Mobile] Preplay: podcast/webshow shows would display two “See all” buttons.
  • [Mobile] Player: items from a play queue weren’t being removed after minimising.
  • [Mobile] News “Channels” items could be incorrectly displayed.
  • [Mobile] Player: camera roll videos played with no sound.
  • [Mobile] Player: sleep timer was incorrectly reset when item finished.
  • [TV] Preplay: app would crash when playing the tracks from a movie/tv show.
  • [TV] Search: genre items could not have proper style.
  • [TV] Performance: minor improvements to image loading and quality.
  • [TV] Player: disable DTS passthrough for Google TV.
  • [TV] General: loading dialog could sometimes fail to dismiss.
  • [TV] Clicking the play button on the remote when browsing a section would play the whole section instead of the selected item.
  • [TV] App could crash when displaying items that are in progress.
  • [TV] Performance: improve sidebar responsiveness.
  • [TV] Live TV: improve picture in guide experience for Chromecast.
  • [TV] Preplays: support playlist reordering.
  • [TV] Hitting back from Settings was losing sidebar focus.

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Plex for Android 8.11.0

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:

  • Preplay: show played status on media detail screens.
  • Bump the minimum supported Plex Media Server version to 1.18.3.
  • Content rows on your home screen are now ordered by the pinned items in your sidebar.
  • [TV] New blur background for preplay, audio player, and post play screens.

FIXES:

  • Player: app could crash on playback error if server connection is not available.
  • Performance: minor improvement to memory usage of Home.
  • Performance: app could attempt to make WebSocket connections to unsupported servers.
  • Search: app could crash when presenting results.
  • [TV] Preplay: marking a Show as played would not work or crash the app.
  • [TV] Core: long usernames would overlap the Plex logo.
  • [TV] Player: the ad countdown was missing top padding.
  • [TV] Increase the size of the border accent on focused cards.

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Plex for Android 8.12.0

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:

  • Preplay: Show HD suffix for DTS-HD audio.
  • Player: Include stream title when available in stream selections.
  • [Mobile] Core: new appearance for overflow menus.
  • [Mobile] Core: cards now use long click actions for accessing overflow menus.

FIXES:

  • Going to a library tab would sometimes display content from a different library.
  • Home: media provider sources were not always in the correct initial order.
  • Player: prevent crash when closing the player shortly after opening the player.
  • Player: ensure screen isn’t kept awake when last item ends.
  • Player: don’t show HDR upsell for non-video items.
  • Live TV: app could crash if tuning from a Recent Channel hub with more than 6 items.
  • Player: fix potential black screen during playback when software decoding is required.
  • “Go to show” action would not be displayed in season overflow menu.
  • [Chromebook] Disable use of multichannel AAC.
  • [Mobile] Player: app could crash trying to show ‘item unavailable’ dialog before playback.
  • [Mobile] 2fa: going back from the verification code screen would display overlapped layout.
  • [Mobile] Home: last hub was sometimes partially hidden.
  • [Mobile] 2fa: auto-pasting the verfication code would not always work.
  • [Mobile] Preplay: display up to 3 secondary actions.
  • [Mobile] All playlists would be displayed when navigating to the playlists source.
  • [Mobile] Sharing: only one server would be displayed when creating a new share.
  • [TV] Photos timeline view could lose focus.
  • [TV] Player: don’t switch to resolutions lower than 720p.
  • [TV] Home: sometimes going back would result in duplicate home content.
  • [TV] Player: prevent error when screensaver is dismissed whilst using display mode switching.
  • [TV] Changing user restriction profile would sometimes not work.

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Plex for Android 8.12.1

Note:
This release was stopped because of the problems found and later fixed in 8.12.2 beta.
As soon as the beta proves to be stable, the 8.12.2 version of the app will be released to production.

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Plex for Android 8.12.2

Note:
This release was stopped due to reported problems. Working on a fix ASAP.

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Plex for Android 8.12.3

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.

FIXES:

  • Player: improve reliability of initial track selection.

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Plex for Android 8.12.4

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.

FIXES:

  • Player: fix crash when subtitle selected and file contains embedded closed captions.

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Plex for Android 8.13.0

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:

  • Live TV: new card style for Featured Channels on Home screen.

FIXES:

  • Live TV: playback could require pressing back multiple times in order to close.
  • DVR: selecting a different library to record to didn’t work.
  • Player: ensure the correct item is used for Live TV airings.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: don’t require app activation in order to play downloaded Podcasts.
  • [Mobile] Player: app could crash when entering Picture in Picture.
  • [Mobile] App could crash when coming back to “My Tidal” list from a preplay.
  • [Mobile] Long usernames would overlap the edit button.
  • [TV] Clicking on a Plex recommended item from TV home screen could get stuck.
  • [TV] Preplay: loading spinner could get stuck on screen when navigating from search.
  • [TV] Search: app would crash when navigating to a movie from an actor.

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Plex for Android 8.13.1

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.

FIXES:

  • Player: prevent endless spinner when playing AVOD.

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Plex for Android 8.13.2

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.

No user-facing changes

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Plex for Android 8.14.0

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.

FIXES:

  • Player: app could crash when exiting playback.
  • Unpinned sources would pin again when reseting customization.
  • Player: prevent empty hubs from appearing on the postplay.
  • Player: stop orange border around adverts.
  • Player: ‘subtitles position’ setting didn’t work.
  • Watch Together: fix ‘remove’ action in card context menus.
  • Update blur background to use 4 colors instead of 6.
  • [Mobile] Player: prevent music video information from overlapping the play-queue.
  • [Mobile] Fix cloud scanning of local video files.

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379

Plex for Android 8.14.1

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.

FIXES:

  • Player: prevent ANR when closing player.
  • Core: hubs would not update as expected after changes to progress/watched status
  • [Mobile] App could crash on launch for Sync users
  • [Mobile] Live TV: featured channels cards could incorrectly show as poster images.

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Plex for Android 8.15.0

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:

  • Player: support for multi-part media.

FIXES:

  • Player: prevent crash while removing WiFi lock when exiting playback.
  • Player: crash could occur when playing an item from the postplay.
  • Preplay: cast list could contain duplicate items.
  • Player: improve Live TV playback.
  • Deeplinks: app could fail to open if attempting to play media while in the background.
  • Preplay: Artist TV was missing.
  • Player: crash when playing transcoded video with selected MOV_TEXT subtitle.
  • Player: don’t display post play when repeating video.
  • Live TV: improve tune times when switching channels.
  • Live TV: switching channels could be slower than expected.
  • Preplay thumbnail was low resolution when navigating via “Go to Show”.
  • Cast: potential crash when resuming the app.
  • Player: app crashes while trying to play a slowmotion/timelapse video
  • Library: some hub items could be duplicated.
  • Player: exiting playback during split-screen would bring Plex to the foreground.
  • App could crash when tuning a Live TV program before the UI is ready.
  • Fix issue with overflow menu not fully expanding on landscape mode.
  • Dimmed background fallback to blur not working correctly.
  • [Mobile] Mini player could get in a state in which it was not possible to close it.
  • [Mobile] Player: pressing the skip intro button would lead to the controls becoming visible.
  • [TV] Image loading could flash while scrolling down through items.
  • [TV] Player: don’t hide audio player controls when navigating buttons.
  • [TV] Prevent crash on Amazon devices when stopping playback.
  • [TV] Ellipsize long library names during source customisation.
  • [TV] Better metadata for Podcasts in audio player.

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Plex for Android 8.15.1

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.

FIXES:

  • [Mobile] App could crash on Huawei tablets when displaying the the first run announcement.

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