Plex for Android

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Plex for Android 8.15.2

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:

  • Home: continue watching hub would only contain 10 items from one server.
  • [TV] Albums on artist details screen would not page.

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Plex for Android 8.16.0

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:

  • Introduce local cache for Home/Libraries to improve performance.
  • [Mobile] Improve sign in screen on tablet devices.
  • [TV] Fire TV: support login with Amazon when creating a new account.
  • [TV] Live TV: improved scrolling within TV guide.

FIXES:

  • Home: hubs from different servers would sometimes display the same data.
  • Continue watching hub in “Movies & TV” source would only contain 10 items.
  • Playlist thumbnails would fail to load sometimes.
  • Player: multi-part videos would only play the first two parts.
  • Home: continue watching hub would only contain 10 items from one server.
  • DVR: crash when editing a recording.
  • DVR: trying to edit a recording from the ‘Schedule’ tab resulted in an empty dialog.
  • Player: hubs would be missing from the postplay.
  • Player: potential crash when exiting during post play screen.
  • Ensure that cloud content is shown in the right language for the device.
  • Display proper subtitle in episode cards if show is date-based.
  • DVR: show ‘location’ dropdown when editing a recording if multiple locations are available.
  • Player: crash could occur when loading a stream with zero bytes of initialisation data.
  • Folder cards could be unreadable.
  • Player: crash could occur when launching the player with no chapter data.
  • Player: ensure surface is prepared before playback begins.
  • Player: potential crash when closing player.
  • Player: bump ExoPlayer to r2.13.1.
  • Preplay summaries didn’t include full paragraph breaks.
  • [Mobile] Player: lyrics for tracks opened from search were not always displayed.
  • [Mobile] Settings: improve naming of the device name setting.
  • [TV] Don’t allow too dark colors with blurred background.
  • [TV] Use default colors and ultrablur for app background.
  • [TV] Animated transition between background changes.
  • [TV] Preplay: episodes on single season shows would be missing titles.
  • [TV] Preplay: the season preplay would sometimes display previous episode’s details.
  • [TV] Player: chapters and Live TV channels could disappear randomly.
  • [TV] Preplay summaries would sometimes not be clickable.
  • [TV] Better support for displaying metadata of date-based shows.

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Plex for Android 8.16.2

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:

  • Live TV: App could crash loading the TV guide.
  • Live TV: prevent guide requests during playback.

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Plex for Android 8.17.0

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] Player: introduce additional subtitle colors.
  • [TV] Navigation: background colors change to match the highlighted item.
  • [TV] Player: support for audio voice commands on Amazon devices.

FIXES:

  • Player: resuming did not always set the correct offset.
  • DVR: it wasn’t possible to record after having switched the target library.
  • Podcasts: fix ‘OPML import’ feature.
  • The ability to delete a playlist was missing in some places.
  • Auto: don’t show multiple music libraries from the same server.
  • [Mobile] ‘Advertise as server’ setting didn’t work.
  • [Mobile] Crash when leaving video or audio player.
  • [Mobile] Podcast playback behaviour icons were not following menu order.
  • [Mobile] Live TV: app could crash when seeking.
  • [Mobile] Posters could jump when data replaced placeholders while loading.
  • [TV] Preplay: long action button titles were cut off.
  • [TV] No longer show Plex chevron on cards when they are loading.
  • [TV] App was opening itself when an expired token was detected.

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Plex for Android 8.17.1

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: skipping tracks could result in multiple tracks being skipped.
  • [Amazon] App could crash trying to handle media key press.

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Plex for Android 8.18.0

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:

  • Support for TMDB and TVDB rating images on detail screens.
  • [TV] Focus highlight added to cast images on media detail screens.

FIXES:

  • Player: ensure games are scaled correctly.
  • Player: prevent black screen when playing games on some devices.
  • Player: ensure player service doesn’t crash on startup.
  • App could crash trying to display play queue viewer during playback.
  • App could crash trying to show upsell after anonymous user playback.
  • Playing theme music from a TV show could sometimes result in a crash.
  • Navigation: display proper subtitle in item cards when ‘by rating’ library sort enabled.
  • Player: app could crash when player was closing.
  • Preplay: hubs would not update correctly when moving through episodes.
  • [Mobile] App could crash trying to display library grid.
  • [Mobile] Preplay: adding podcasts/webshows to “My Shows” would not update the button.
  • [Mobile] Navigating up from an episode goes back to show preplay for single season.
  • [Mobile] Improve appearance of multi-selected items.
  • [TV] Player: D-Pad center button will show OSD when it’s hidden during audio playback.
  • [TV] App could crash trying to update progress of audio miniplayer.
  • [TV] Live TV: app would request guide data regularly during playback.
  • [TV] Reduce banding with blurred background.
  • [TV] Preplay: playlist reordering would not work.

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Plex for Android 8.18.1

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:

  • App could crash trying to determine if play queue was playable.
  • App could crash when trying to determine local IP address.

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Plex for Android 8.18.2

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:

  • Opening the details page of an item with TMDb ratings could crash the app.

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Plex for Android 8.19.0

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:

  • [Mobile] Remove the Camera Upload feature.
  • [TV] Preplay: list hubs (playlists, webshows/podcasts) are not clipped - fixed.
  • [TV] Player: focus cannot be moved to controls during advert playback

FIXES:

  • Search: App could crash while loading search results.
  • Player: prevent crash when closing the player.
  • Don’t try to re-fetch all home hubs if there is an error.
  • Player: ensure game sessions are terminated.
  • Player: support for Z button on N64 games.
  • Background: possible ultrablur color extraction crash.
  • App could crash during playback.
  • Preplay: app could crash when opening Preplay from home.
  • Player: prevent crash when transcoding videos with VobSub subtitles.
  • Player: app could crash trying to display ‘playback info’ menu.
  • Player: align Arabic stream names to other titles.
  • Player: show extended title for subtitles.
  • App could crash trying to find reachable servers in the background.
  • Preplay: app could incorrectly show 0 as played progress played.
  • [Amazon] App could crash trying to restore sidebar sources on launch.
  • [Hubs] Library tab will show even when there are no recommendations.
  • [Mobile] App could crash trying to initialize playlists details screen.
  • [Mobile] Fix crash sharing logs on devices running Android 5.
  • [Mobile] Notifications: grouped push notifications would be posted in the media channel.
  • [Mobile] Improve MiniPlayer button appearance.
  • [TV] Menu: some devices would not show overflow settings action.
  • [TV] Live TV overflow menu was missing in certain conditions.
  • [TV] Improve the appearance of progress bars.

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Plex for Android 8.19.1

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:

  • [TV] Settings: fix memory usage when opening settings.
  • [TV] App could crash trying to display the sidebar.

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Plex for Android 8.19.2

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] Live TV: Fix guide crash on older devices when adding program badges.

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Plex for Android 8.19.3

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:

  • Downloads would sometimes only use half the available storage.

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Plex for Android 8.19.4

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:

  • Connectivity: ensure 172.x IP addresses are detected as local addresses.

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Plex for Android 8.20.0

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:

  • Downloads: only show ‘initializing downloads’ subtitle during actual view state sync.
  • [TV] Start initial focus on first hub item with new sidebar.

FIXES:

  • App could crash trying to populate home screen
  • Player: ensure software audio decoder doesn’t exceed the channels supported by the device.
  • TV: darken default application background
  • Player: crash could occur while closing playback with refresh rate switching enabled.
  • Player: improve audio playback.
  • Hubs could incorrectly show as offline.
  • [Mobile] App could crash trying to change volume while connected to remote player.
  • [TV] Player: prevent crash when restoring original display mode.
  • [TV] Background: reduced threshold for rejecting dark extracted colors.
  • [TV] App could crash trying to display clock in playback controls overlay.
  • [TV] Update the appearance of the search screen.
  • [TV] Player: crash could occur trying to display blurred background in post-play.
  • [TV] Remove from watchlist does not reflect on UI.
  • [TV] Sidebar: quickly clicking on a sidebar item would break the content.
  • [TV] Update the appearance of the subtitle search screen.

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Plex for Android 8.20.1

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:

  • Live TV: app incorrectly order and display channels on TV guide.

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Plex for Android 8.21.1

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.

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Plex for Android 8.21.2

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] Recommendations: prevent update from being scheduled too often.

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Plex for Android 8.22.0

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.

NEW:

  • Plex now offers a new modern layout that allows you to discover information about titles as you browse including summaries, parental ratings, top billed casts and more, all while putting rich artwork on display. There are also additional background options for Home and Detail screens.

FIXES:

  • App would show startup animation everytime it was resumed.
  • Player: update ExoPlayer to v2.14.1.
  • [TV] Some layout had incorrect sizing with 720p TVs

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Plex for Android 8.23.0

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:

  • Content added to library from TIDAL would not play.
  • Related hubs on details screen would only display 10 items.
  • Audio: prevent crash playing empty play queue.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: show an error when the transcoder crashes.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: could get stuck at initialising.
  • [TV] Preplay: reviews would display shared user name as a source.
  • [TV] Preplay: display user rating.

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Plex for Android 8.23.1

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:

  • Preplay: some extra types such as featurettes were not properly supported.
  • [Mobile] Preplay: local playback items would not load.

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