Plex for Android

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Plex for Android 9.7.0

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:

  • LiveTV: What's On tab for Plex FAST channels.
  • Player: full ASS/SSA subtitle support.
  • [Mobile] Profile: pages to view the full Watchlist and all ratings.

FIXES:

  • LiveTV: tab separators on TVGuide could appear in multiple places.
  • Search: use correct subtitle in header of location picker.
  • Ensure we display all the episodes and seasons in Discover preplays.
  • Player: allow trailers to direct play.
  • [Mobile] Notifications could persist when switching users.
  • [Mobile] Profile: improve performance during configuration changes.
  • [Mobile] Position of the rating bar has changed.
  • [Mobile] Profile: watch stats would display incorrectly in some localizations.
  • [Mobile] Preplay would reload upon rating an item.
  • [Mobile] Some screens were empty after rotating device.
  • [Mobile] LiveTV: add cosmetic separator to genre filter tabs on the TVGuide.
  • [Mobile] LiveTV: remove extra spacing under bottom sheet on the TVGuide.
  • [TV] Long username can be cut off.
  • [TV] Home: sidebar would often focus the wrong item on initial load.
  • [TV] LiveTV: long press hint would appear multiple times on the TV Guide for new users.
  • [TV] LiveTV: focusing the channel guide button to autoplay the first channel on home hubs.

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Plex for Android 9.8.0

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:

  • [Mobile] Feed: user can edit the date of a ‘watched’ activity.

FIXES:

  • Player: tuning to a Live TV channel could crash.
  • Navigating from search results could lead to details screen with no availability information.
  • Preplay: display availabilities correctly when no preferred services selected.
  • Artwork could appear mismatched on items with no artwork.
  • Preplay: Discover shows were sometimes erroneously badged as “Played”.
  • User state would not refresh after creating or removing managed accounts.
  • Player: disable HEVC on Samsung Tab’s with faulty HEVC decoder.
  • Player: prevent crash initialising software decoder.
  • Source content would not load sometimes after switching users.
  • LiveTV: allow removal of favorite channels on error state, from the TVGuide.
  • Fix glitch initializing search UI with list of recent searches.
  • [Mobile] Navigation from a new invite push notification wouldn’t always work.
  • [Mobile] Prevent a user from sending a friend request to themself or sharing PMS content with themself.
  • [Mobile] Use a localised date format in the activity feed.
  • [Mobile] Improve the layout of the preplay activity feed in landscape orientation.
  • [Mobile] Improve the tablet layout of the user profile.
  • [Mobile] Deep link into the app would be lost when switching users.
  • [Mobile] Manual Connection: servers would not be found.
  • [TV] Grant access option was mistakenly displayed.
  • [TV] App would crash when adding new users from the user picker.

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Plex for Android 9.8.1

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:

  • Player: improvements to playback of Movies & Shows on Plex content.

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Plex for Android 9.8.2

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:

  • [TV] App could crash after switching users.
  • [TV] Display correct information about the selected item on home page.

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Plex for Android 9.9.0

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:

  • Show edition information in posters, menus, and during playback.

FIXES:

  • Player: improve playback startup performance.
  • Preplay: toolbar icons were tiny in tablets.
  • Discover: support watchlisting items from Trending Trailers hub.
  • Player: downloads would show as playing from the server instead of the local device.
  • Discover preplay: don’t badge show as “played” when only a few episodes are played.
  • Search: filter displayed collections based on selected pivot.
  • [Mobile] Player: playback speed setting didn’t work.
  • [Mobile] Preplay: the social activity button would be displayed incorrectly if more than six users interacted with an item.
  • [Mobile] Sharing: the number of shared libraries could be displayed incorrectly.
  • [Mobile] ‘Remove from Watch History’ and ‘Edit Watched Date’ overflow menu actions were displayed in incorrect places.
  • [Mobile] Don’t show overflow action in toolbar if there are no overflow items.
  • [Mobile] Hide the “add” button on friends list scroll.
  • [TV] Ensure popular searches row is always accessible.
  • [TV] Search: respect account opt-outs when deciding whether to show “popular searches” row.
  • [TV] Home: ensure media item is selected when first opening app.
  • [TV] Preplay: make sure availabilities always reflect latest changes to preferred services.

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Plex for Android 9.10.0

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:

  • Search: improved way to display recent searches.
  • [Mobile] Discover Together: the onboarding flow now allows users to swipe between screens.
  • [TV] Users can now rate content.
  • [TV] LiveTV: automatically focus tuned channel when TV Guide loads.

FIXES:

  • Player: correctly select tracks on future content in a play queue.
  • Display old “added at” dates correctly in card subtitles.
  • Player: moving back to the guide could crash during Live TV playback.
  • Search: include photo tags in results.
  • Search: navigating to some results could fail randomly.
  • Search: deal correctly with photo album results.
  • Player: improved Google Assistant integration to allow playback controls.
  • [Mobile] Profile: prevent writing in the middle of a text field if the character limit has been reached.
  • [Mobile] Preplay: background art was not shown for Discover items sometimes.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: hide subtitle search for downloaded items due to lack of support.
  • [Mobile] LiveTV: FAST channels from search results would not tune.
  • [Mobile] The app would close when a user profile loading error occured.
  • [TV] LiveTV: EPG would not populate for more than a day on Amazon Live TV integration.
  • [TV] LiveTV: use program artwork instead of channel logos for rows on Amazon homescreen.
  • [TV] Search: recent search buttons could become unselectable sometimes.
  • [TV] Search: ensure popular searches row is always accessible.
  • [TV] Search: display person’s credit types in subtitle.

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Plex for Android 9.10.1

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] Ensure users can authenticate with Facebook.

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Plex for Android 9.11.0

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:

  • Add Media Libraries hub to universal people preplay screen.
  • [Mobile] Player: differentiate Plex Companion and Chromecast targets.

FIXES:

  • Make sure that “Remove from Continue Watching” is included in context menus.
  • Prevent unnecessary network requests made by the app.
  • LiveTV: channel logo would not show during playback.
  • LiveTV: favorite channels to be removed properly on manage favorites screen.
  • Stream selection in detail pages could be ignored sometimes.
  • Player: switching refresh rate or resolution would cause playback to get stuck on Chromecast with Google TV devices.
  • Search: include genres in “Free on Demand” results.
  • Search: Make sure long song titles don’t override source titles.
  • [Mobile] App could crash when receiving a Discover Together notification.
  • [Mobile] People Pages: don’t show filmography to managed users.
  • [Mobile] Granting media access would not work.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: stream selection didn’t work on details screen of ‘Downloads’ source.
  • [Mobile] Download: download limit wrongfully defaults to 0.
  • [TV] Search: respect high-contrast theme.

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Plex for Android 9.11.1

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] Downloads: ‘library’ tab doesn’t show downloaded content.
  • [TV] Ensure content doesn’t overlap in season preplay.

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Plex for Android 9.12.0

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.

FIXES:

  • App could crash after executing “Add to My TIDAL” action.
  • Prefer playlist thumb when available.
  • Player: correctly select automatic subtitle selection when playing videos with multiple versions.
  • Player: ensure seek previews are visible for TV episodes.
  • App could crash randomly at launch.
  • App could crash opening certain sections.
  • Player: prevent crash updating UI elements when player is closing.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: cancelling a direct download doesn’t stop the downloading of the file.
  • [Mobile] Sort options could get disabled in library filters panel.
  • [Mobile] Platform: WatchTogether hub would fail to load on home screen.
  • [TV] Platform: sidebar could get stuck showing no text.
  • [TV] LiveTV: screensaver would sometimes appear during playback.
  • [TV] Live TV: App could crash on start-up when syncing EPG content with the system.
  • [TV] Don’t show rating bar in people detail pages.
  • [TV] People Pages: clear background when returning to filmography.
  • [TV] Empty libraries could steal focus from the sidebar.

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Plex for Android 9.12.1

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store.

FIXES:

  • App could crash in a number of different scenarios.
  • Player: prevent crash when content from Plex ends.

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Plex for Android 9.12.2

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store.

FIXES:

  • Player: ensure Plex content can be fully watched to the end.

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Plex for Android 9.13.0

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.

FIXES:

  • Player: prevent crash when switching to Live TV guide.
  • Player: prevent crashes when closing the player.
  • Player: when transcoding a DoVi stream we shouldn’t attempt to play it as DoVi.
  • Startup: prevent crash starting up application on Sony TVs.
  • [Mobile] Platform: Download progress badge size was too small.
  • [Mobile] Support audio stream selection in Movies & Shows detail pages.
  • [TV] App could crash trying to open an episode detail page.
  • [TV] Some TV show detail pages did not show the correct watched status on episodes.
  • [TV] App was crashing on startup on certain devices.
  • [TV] Inline artwork could be displayed incorrectly when navigating back quickly.
  • [TV] Preplay: an incorrect title could be briefly displayed when navigating from the profile.

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Plex for Android 9.13.1

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:

  • App could crash on startup on Blaupunkt devices.
  • Player: allow DoVi when direct streaming.

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Plex for Android 9.14.0

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.

WHATS NEW:

  • Add support for grouped streaming service preferences.
  • [TV] Feed: scroll to the first item in the feed when the back button is pressed.

FIXES:

  • Search: query with no results would result in infinite spinner.
  • Player: support for DTS and DTS:HD passthrough on FireTV Cube 3rd Gen.
  • Player: prevent crash playing music in the background.
  • App could crash after being restored from the background.
  • Review cards could be duplicated in detail pages.
  • App could crash after trying to switch layouts.
  • Player: ensure subtitle icon appears correctly on Android 5.1 and below.
  • Player: hide buttons when they are unavailable.
  • Player: app could crash when closing the player.
  • App could crash during launch.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: storage limit preference was not being respected.
  • [Mobile] App could crash during sign-up process.
  • [Mobile] Cast: app could crash connecting to a cast device.
  • [Mobile] Discover Together: the onboarding flow could crash on tablets running Oreo.
  • [Mobile] “Add to watchlist” prompt wasn’t showing for Discover seasons.
  • [TV] Some rows didn’t display metadata details when focused.
  • [TV] Player: allow “A” button on a game controller to skip the intro.
  • [TV] Settings: the app could crash when opening the settings screen.
  • [TV] Prevent tabs from overlapping clock.
  • [TV] Ensure that first item of overflow menus is focused initially.
  • [TV] Display multiple directors in movie and TV show detail pages.
  • [TV] App could erroneously display a “No items to display” message in the Home section.
  • [TV] Unfocused episodes were dimmed when navigating to season detail pages.
  • [TV] LiveTV: a crash might occur on timeline updates whilst browsing the TV Guide. (
  • [TV] LiveTV: TV Guide would show empty airings on timeline updates.

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Plex for Android 9.15.0

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: upgrade ExoPlayer to v2.18.2.
  • Show user picker after sign-in if Plex Home has more than 1 user or if the pin is enabled.

FIXES:

  • Trailers could not be played from Home section.
  • App could crash trying to verify PIN after a user switch.
  • Player: prevent crash when a player error occurs.
  • Player: prevent crash when subtitles are selected and an advert is played.
  • Platform: app could crash on start up on certain devices.
  • App could crash trying to populate Home source.
  • Live TV: app could crash generating the title of some channels.
  • Platform: app could crash on startup for a small number of users.
  • [Mobile] App could crash trying to open local video file.
  • [Mobile] App could crash when opening a friendship request.
  • [TV] Search: app could crash after clearing search query.
  • [TV] App could crash displaying lyrics during audio playback.
  • [TV] App could crash navigating to episode preplay from availability picker.
  • [TV] Search: app could crash during keyboard hiding transition.
  • [TV] App could crash after being sent to the background with Filmography page open.

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Plex for Android 9.16.0

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:

  • Player: AV1 support (compatible SOC required).
  • [TV] Feed: add button to view the full message when the message is long.

FIXES:

  • Player: prevent playback ending when quality is changed.
  • Plex Pass was not available after subscription purchase unless app restarted.
  • Plex Home: provide better feedback when wrong PIN entered.
  • Player: prevent crash when playing with equalizer open.
  • DVR: app could crash showing recording options dialog.
  • Player: prevent memory leak when software decoding video.
  • App could crash trying to display some library photos.
  • Player: app could crash during Live TV playback.
  • Player: don’t crash trying to show dialog with empty message.
  • Platform: App could crash when signing in on certain devices.
  • App could crash when trying to authenticate a user.
  • App could crash after wrong PIN entered in user switcher.
  • Live TV: app could crash trying to play items of certain types.
  • Player: app could crash after stopping playback.
  • Player: improve buffer size to prevent excessive buffering.
  • App could crash trying to show “available subscriptions” dialog.
  • Player: prevent random crash when player service is destroyed.
  • [Mobile] App could crash during sign-in process.
  • [Mobile] App could crash displaying list of available Companion players.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: downloads would fail if network had DNS Rebinding Protection enabled.
  • [Mobile] App could crash during Chromecast playback.
  • [Mobile] Player: prevent crash modifying play queue.
  • [Mobile] Friends: app could crash when viewing the friends list.
  • [Mobile] Sonos: prevent Phillips Hue devices from appearing in the cast list as a Sonos device.
  • [Mobile] Player: bottom menus would overlap with gesture navigation bar.
  • [TV] App could crash during subtitle search.
  • [TV] Platform: App could crash trying to load background images.
  • [TV] App could crash trying to display some grid sections.
  • [TV] The incorrect tab would display as selected when remember selected tab was disabled.
  • [TV] Ensure playlist reorder icon appears correctly on Android 5.1 and below.

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Plex for Android 9.16.1

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 memory leak when playing the next video.

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Plex for Android 9.16.2

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store.

FIXES:

  • Improvements to the way deep links are handled.

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Plex for Android 9.17.0

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:

  • Discover: improved experience when opening external service and required app not installed.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: add time left and percentage information, add cancelation confirmation dialog.

FIXES:

  • Player: prevent constant drop frames on 720p recordings on Chromecast with Google TV devices.
  • Player: cellular limit was sometimes not respected.
  • Feed: the “Remove Activity” option could be shown on other users’ activities.
  • Player: showing the postplay during credits didn’t let you return to the video.
  • Player: prevent crash during service launch.
  • Platform: in app alerts and confirmations would sometimes fail to show.
  • LiveTV: create placeholder for channels that return no airings.
  • Fix issue where opening a person page could cause a PMS local media scan.
  • LiveTV: airings on the TVGuide would sometimes not populate properly when scrolling back from a future date.
  • Player: fallback to HDR when DoVi profile isn’t supported.
  • The app could open to a blank screen.
  • App could crash during server update process.
  • App could crash trying to start downloading content while in the background.
  • Preplay: app could crash generating file details for local videos.
  • Home: app could crash while loading home.
  • App could crash on startup when the device is set to use certain languages.
  • LiveTV: shows would sometimes not play from a details view.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: estimating time left could crash app.
  • [Mobile] App could crash trying to display some item grids.
  • [Mobile] App could crash trying to play some local video files.
  • [Mobile] Platform: fix crash dismissing BottomSheet.
  • [Mobile] Platform: scrolling via jump letter would cause scroll to reset.
  • [TV] LiveTV: fix an issue where going back to the TVGuide would not focus the channel currently playing.
  • [TV] Navigating to Discover episodes would fail sometimes.
  • [TV] Preplay: don’t show played badge for music albums.
  • [TV] LiveTV: first row on the TVGuide would sometimes show repeated airings.
  • [TV] App could crash during PIN login.
  • [TV] App could crash trying to display a cast member’s filmography.
  • [TV] Player: prevent crash showing seek overlay when playback ends.
  • [TV] App could crash trying to display settings screen.
  • [TV] Platform: first launch of discovery could fail to load inline metadata.
  • [TV] Platform: pin code for sign up shown incorrectly with RTL languages.

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