Plex for Android

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Plex for Android 8.24.0

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:

  • Hubs: selecting part played episode on details page would play from start.
  • [TV] Hubs: pressing play button on remote will now resume instead of playing from start.

FIXES:

  • Preplay: allow TV and Movie folders to be played.
  • Downloads: show watched progress.
  • Player buttons were red on devices with API<24.
  • Downloads: hide undownloaded streams on downloads.
  • Player: allow AAC LATM, FLAC, MP1, MP2, Opus and Vorbis as transcode audio targets.
  • Downloads: allow sorting with custom title sorts.
  • Downloads: show error when storage location is removed.
  • [Mobile] New users invited to the app would not show up in the sharing list.
  • [Mobile] Inviting a friend with restrictions would not work.
  • [Mobile] Photos: saving a photo to the device would produce an error.
  • [TV] Live TV: Picture In Guide video overlay was not blending correctly.

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Plex for Android 8.24.1

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: ensure transcoding URL doesn’t exceed the maximum length for FFmpeg.

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Plex for Android 8.25.0

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: Live TV OTA Playback could get stuck in buffering.
  • Player: improve refresh rate switching by allowing frame rates to be matched as floats.
  • [TV] App could crash while scrolling content with UltraBlur backgrounds.
  • [TV] Player: take optical pass-through into account when transcoding audio.
  • [TV] Library: the option to remove from a playlist was missing.

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Plex for Android 8.25.1

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store.

Internal changes only.

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 8.26.0

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: prevent playback error when calculating bandwidth.
  • Downloads: ensure prefer downloads setting is taken into consideration when playing downloaded content.
  • Player: move loading spinner behind control bar.
  • Downloads: ensure transcoded videos download correctly.
  • Player: stop media session when playback ends.
  • Player: ensure Live TV playback doesn’t get stuck buffering.
  • Downloads: prevent external storage missing error from appearing incorrectly.
  • [TV] Player: disable tunnelling support for Chromecast with Google TV device.

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Plex for Android 8.26.1

Available on the Amazon App Store.

FIXES:

  • [Mobile] The sign in button in the sidebar was not clickable.

This release is not available via APK and has only been made available to the Amazon App Store, 8.26.2 will soon be available to Google Play, Amazon App Store and APKs.

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Plex for Android 8.26.2

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] Theming: allow managed Home users to use premium themes.

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Plex for Android 8.27.0

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:

  • Cast: app could sometimes crash updating playback state.
  • Player: continue playing the next season after a season ends.
  • Player: show message when server admin stops playback.
  • Player: skip playing multi-episode videos after they have already been played.
  • Player: disable tunnelling support for MediaCodecs on all devices.
  • [Mobile] Preplay: ensure that ‘go to season’ is present in overflow menu.

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Plex for Android 8.27.1

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 would make unnecessary network requests in some scenarios.

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Plex for Android 8.27.2

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:

  • [Mobile] App could crash after signing out.
  • [TV] Live TV: prevent crash when playing items from “What’s On Now”

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Plex for Android 8.28.0

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: prevent content getting stuck after advert playback.
  • Player: upgrade ExoPlayer to v2.16.1.
  • Downloads: improve download speed when downloading onto external storage.
  • [Mobile] Live TV: setting recording offsets would cause a crash on Android 12.
  • [TV] Navigation: focus would jump up when opening sidebar.
  • [TV] Background tasks would start too frequently.
  • [TV] Preplay: use correct icon for ‘play trailer’ icon.

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Plex for Android 8.29.0

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: prefer non-PCM output when playing over ARC.
  • Player: ensure notification doesn’t block playback on Samsung devices.
  • [TV] Do not focus ‘update’ button by default on PMS update banner.
  • [TV] Ensure dimmed art takes into account the current theme.

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Plex for Android 8.29.1

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store.

FIXES:

  • Player: ensure playback continues after an advert initialisation error.

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Plex for Android 8.30.0

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:

  • Hubs: support for clicking actors on details pages.
  • Sidebar: sort libraries from same server alphabetically in More menu.
  • [Mobile] Player: improved demuxer stack for increased performance.
  • [TV] Player: inline video preview could crash while navigating.
  • [TV] FTV: remove ability to sort channels by number in the device channel grid.

FIXES:

  • App could crash while initialising user.
  • Player: better bandwith estimate at beginning of playback.
  • Player: ensure ‘Watch From Start’ behaves correctly when playing pre-captured Live TV.
  • Player: ensure optical passthrough is restricted to stereo PCM.
  • [TV] Live TV: playback on Fire TV home screen would not stop when screensaver became active.
  • [TV] Photos: album/folder cards were missing titles.
  • [TV] Preplay: cast images could fail to load on some older devices.
  • [TV] Live TV: Back button press whilst on TVGuide, will switch focus to selected tab.

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Plex for Android 8.30.1

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:

  • [Fire TV] Player: crash could occur when playing the next video.
  • [TV] App could crash trying to update Home screen recommendations.

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Plex for Android 8.30.2

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:

  • Player: prevent advert playback getting stuck.

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Plex for Android 8.31.0

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] Live TV: add button to TV Guide inline player for navigating back to fullscreen.
  • [TV] Live TV: show channel numbers on Manage Favorites Screen for OTA channels.

FIXES:

  • App could crash during start up on some devices.
  • Player: videos in photo libraries would only play audio.
  • Player: ensure image subtitles are sized correctly on screen.
  • Live TV: fix encoding issues with xmltv channels that failed to tune.
  • Player: improve TrueHD playback performance.
  • Photos would fail to play from recommended hubs.
  • Player: switching audio track for video-on-demand would fail.
  • [Mobile] Preplay: background art would disappear when navigating between preplays.
  • [Mobile] Player: ensure chapters can be accessed.
  • [TV] Player: keep “skip intro” marker visible in controls Hud.

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Plex for Android 8.31.1

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: ensure TrueHD remains in sync.
  • Webshows: ‘add to my shows’ action failed sometimes.

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Plex for Android 8.31.2

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] App could crash on startup on specific devices.

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Plex for Android 9.0.0

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.

FIXES:

  • Preplay: never include source name in hub titles.
  • Player: ensure extractor plays on a network with DNS rebinding protection.
  • App could crash when resumed from the background.
  • Home: minor performance improvements to Home screen.
  • Player: show pause overlay when video is paused.
  • Live TV: favorites will not reload when navigating back to the tv guide from fullscreen.
  • Player: update ExoPlayer to v2.17.1.
  • Downloads: improve downloading multiple items.
  • [Mobile] Player: channels list would not show correct VCN and channel logo.
  • [TV] Plex Live TV source was showing twice in manage Channels.
  • [TV] Content from the wrong library was sometimes shown after switching tabs.
  • [TV] LiveTV: TV guide to include What's On section for OTA Channels.

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