Plex for Android

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Plex for Android 9.19.0

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:

  • Include “add/remove from preferred services” action in context menu of streaming service cards.
  • Search: new tab for streaming service results.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: show download speed estimate.

FIXES:

  • Showing the “error connecting to server” dialog could crash the app.
  • Deeplinks: app required 2 extra back presses when opening from a live tv deeplink.
  • Platform: fix image corners being clipped on low end devices…
  • People pages: exclude shows from “in your media libraries” hub if the person doesn’t have a main role.
  • App could crash when trying to sign in if the device can’t open webviews.
  • Search: selected tab continued to be selected after being removed.
  • People detail pages: don’t show library picker when selected item is available in a single library.
  • LiveTV: first timeline block in the TVGuide didn’t always display as “NOW”.
  • Detail pages: wrong initials were used for items in Cast row.
  • Use correct text for “mark as watched” confirmation dialog.
  • [Mobile] Search library picker could display wrong options for selected search result.
  • [Mobile] Player: prevent crash updating equalizer.
  • [Mobile] Detail pages: fix crash trying to show attribution logo.
  • [Mobile] App could crash trying to switch to a different tab in the selected library.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: transcode can fail if multiple clients download the same item concurrently
  • [Mobile] Downloads: no artwork displayed for season downloads.
  • [Mobile] Player: don’t show skip intro when OSD is shown.
  • [Mobile] Detail pages: background image was lost on device rotation.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: the failing of a pending download could impact the current download.
  • [Mobile] Fix crash during photo multi selection.
  • [Mobile] Feed: the reply action was not available when an activity was opened via a push notification.
  • [TV] Player: app could crash trying to display track list during music playback.
  • [TV] Platform: buttons could be displayed at incorrect sizes.
  • [TV] App could crash due to wrong source selected on sidebar.
  • [TV] App could crash trying to open some external streaming services.

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Plex for Android 9.19.1

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:

  • Player: ensure auto play is advancing to the next episode.
  • [TV] Platform: focus audio could sometimes send multiple clicks.

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Plex for Android 9.20.0

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.

FIXES:

  • LiveTV: TV Guide channel lineups wouldn’t load after switching users.
  • Player: ensure the original display mode is restored correctly when exiting playback.
  • LiveTV: TVGuide would sometimes show empty cells whilst in the background for long time.
  • LiveTV: TV Guide will scroll to the top when changing tabs.
  • Users with pin set, but without managed accounts wouldn’t be able to create them.
  • “Watch Together” sessions would sometimes not redirect to waiting room.
  • Player: crash could occur when switching to the next item on the post-play.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: large downloads not showing progress.
  • [Mobile] Selected filters were not displayed correctly for Watchlist section.
  • [Mobile] Some suubtitles were cut off when system font set to a large value.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: subscriptions with multiple items wouldn’t show speed estimate.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: resumed downloads of some file formats could fail to play.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: download menu item not shown on preplay screen on smaller devices.
  • [Mobile] Detail pages: display correct downloaded state of items initially.
  • [Mobile] Sidebar: a managed user’s avatar was incorrectly set as a click target.
  • [TV] Profile: the currently focused item could sometimes move off screen.
  • [TV] LiveTV: tab focus on the TV Guide would jump back to selected tab during airings loading.
  • [TV] App could crash displaying content of Discover source.

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465

Plex for Android 9.20.1

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store.

FIXES:

  • Player: prevent error dialog when loading Live TV channels.
  • The app could crash while in the background.
  • [TV] Player: close player when Plex is in the background.

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Plex for Android 9.21.0

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:

  • Detail pages: ensure that toolbar buttons show the right state in all scenarios.
  • Optimize amount of memory used in some scenarios.
  • Plex Home: managed accounts were displayed in the Grant Access flow for non-admin users.
  • Search: movies with same title from same year were displayed as a single result.
  • App could fail to launch due to corrupt database.
  • [LiveTV] - Adding a favorite channel would not work for anonymous users
  • [Mobile] Make sure that person preplays look good in landscape orientation.
  • [Mobile] Preplay: ensure that navigating up works when device is offline.
  • [Mobile] Profile: rotating the device after updating the avatar would cause the original avatar to be displayed.
  • [TV] Ensure that “app background” setting always displays a correct value.
  • [TV] Navigating to actor library grid had issues.
  • [TV] Search: app could crash when trying to view media for people.
  • [TV] Fix crash trying to navigate to search result.

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Plex for Android 9.21.1

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.

FIXES:

  • Cast: casting could cause some devices to reboot.

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Plex for Android 9.21.2

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:

  • App could crash at startup.

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Plex for Android 9.21.3

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:

  • [Mobile] : Platform: updated password complexity requirements for new users.

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Plex for Android 9.23.0

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.

WHATS NEW:

  • Discover: include link to preferred services in preplay location picker.

FIXES:

  • Search: hide the Movies & TV tab if there are no sources of that type.
  • Live TV: increase pause timeout to 30 minutes.
  • Preplay: deep links to external services would fail to open correctly sometimes.
  • Player: move subtitles to top position when UI is visible.
  • Player: subtitles would fail to select for cloud content.
  • [Mobile] Removing a managed account in Plex Home would result in an error.
  • [Mobile] Navigating up from a single shared item would sometimes fail.
  • [Mobile] Platform: pull to refresh might shift on load.
  • [Mobile] Media Access: downloads and live TV restrictions would not be saved for managed accounts.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: app could crash when deleting a download.
  • [Mobile] Search: improve background of settings screen.
  • [TV] LiveTV: older amazon devices could crash while syncing channels on the background.
  • [TV] Preplay: focus could disappear when going up in some preplay screens.
  • [TV] PrePlay: writers were missing from more info screen.
  • [TV] Preplay: episode details would not refresh after rating the episode.
  • [TV] Preplay: make scrolling through popular tracks row faster.
  • [TV] Preplay: ensure that episode cards are dimmed when appropriate.
  • [TV] LiveTV: episode information was missing from details in the TV Guide.

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Plex for Android 9.23.0

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.

WHATS NEW:

  • Discover: include link to preferred services in preplay location picker.

FIXES:

  • Search: hide the Movies & TV tab if there are no sources of that type.
  • Live TV: increase pause timeout to 30 minutes.
  • Preplay: deep links to external services would fail to open correctly sometimes.
  • Player: move subtitles to top position when UI is visible.
  • Player: subtitles would fail to select for cloud content.
  • [Mobile] Removing a managed account in Plex Home would result in an error.
  • [Mobile] Navigating up from a single shared item would sometimes fail.
  • [Mobile] Platform: pull to refresh might shift on load.
  • [Mobile] Media Access: downloads and live TV restrictions would not be saved for managed accounts.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: app could crash when deleting a download.
  • [Mobile] Search: improve background of settings screen.
  • [TV] LiveTV: older amazon devices could crash while syncing channels on the background.
  • [TV] Preplay: focus could disappear when going up in some preplay screens.
  • [TV] PrePlay: writers were missing from more info screen.
  • [TV] Preplay: episode details would not refresh after rating the episode.
  • [TV] Preplay: make scrolling through popular tracks row faster.
  • [TV] Preplay: ensure that episode cards are dimmed when appropriate.
  • [TV] LiveTV: episode information was missing from details in the TV Guide.

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Plex for Android 9.24.0

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.

FIXES:

  • App could crash when opening playlists while server offline.
  • Player: prevent crash parsing subtitles with an image.
  • Platform: app could crash initialising on certain devices.
  • Player: allow transcoded subtitles to be styled.
  • Player: content would not resume from offset when playing from an unclaimed server.
  • Search: improve stability of settings UI.
  • [Mobile] Removing media access invites to an email address would fail.
  • [Mobile] App could crash trying to navigate to search results.
  • [Mobile] Going into notification settings would sometimes result in an error.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: playback could get stuck in loading when on remote connection.
  • [TV] Platform: ensure layout switching is more reliable.
  • [TV] Social activity would jump around in an episode’s detail page.

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Plex for Android 9.25.0

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:

  • Ensure folder navigation works correctly.
  • Player: ensure VOBSUB subtitles appear for 576p content.
  • Player: ensure artist radio fetches more than 5 tracks.
  • Platform: app could crash when closing the player.
  • [TV] Platform: app could crash loading the home screen.

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Plex for Android 9.26.0

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.

WHATS NEW:

  • [Mobile] Implement a new library access invite indicator in the sidebar.

FIXES:

  • Search: improve header of location picker for genre results.
  • Search: start playback of track results directly.
  • Preplay: show the “Watch from these locations” section for unreleased titles that are available on a server.
  • Search: app could crash opening some search results.
  • Preplay: the app could crash displaying the preplay activity feed.
  • Player: update burn-in subtitle settings to allow ASS subtitles to be burnt in (through the Only Advanced Formats setting).
  • [Mobile] App would crash when navigating to the home section on some devices.
  • [Mobile] Preplay: display thumbnails of extra elements correctly.
  • [Mobile] Preplay: ensure that share action is visible in all scenarios.
  • [TV] Watchlist: posters on empty state were cut off
  • [TV] App could crash trying to open some external streaming services.
  • [TV] Search: app could crash after performing a voice search.
  • [TV] Preplay: interacting with Popular Tracks section could result in a crash.
  • [TV] Feed: the go to profile overflow option was not available on activities created by the current user.
  • [TV] Search: focus could get lost when moving between keyboard keys.
  • [TV] Focus could get lost after displaying empty Watchlist screen.
  • [TV] Preplay: app could crash trying to display some preplay pages.
  • [TV] Activity feed focus indicator would disappear when navigating to a user profile.
  • [TV] Companion: introduce a setting to advertise the app as a player.

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Plex for Android 9.28.0

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:

  • App could crash displaying the activity feed.
  • Player: strip out HDR10+ when playing DoVi P8.1 & HDR10+ stream on a DoVi display.
  • Player: postplay would sometimes be missing the play icon.
  • The list of muted and blocked accounts could be cut off.
  • Player: ensure TrueHD is transcoded on FireTV 4K Max devices that don’t support TrueHD.
  • Player: switching to another quality could fail when multiple versions exist.
  • [Mobile] The Grant Media Access flow would result in an error if the user does not own a Plex Media Server.
  • [TV] Sidebar icons would end up in a weird state if clicked while content was loading.
  • [TV] Returning to a collection after browsing an item would scroll to the top.
  • [TV] Friends: app could crash when unmuting or unblocking a user.
  • [TV] Platform: app could crash while signing in on Amazon Fire TV devices.
  • [TV] App could crash editing a managed user account.

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Plex for Android 9.29.0

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.

WHATS NEW:

  • Player: favourite button for marking a Live TV channel as a favourite.

FIXES:

  • Platform: navigation could sometimes stall indefinitely on a bad connection.
  • [TV] Ensure review card has a focus indication on all devices.
  • [TV] Ensure filmography list items have correct size.

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Plex for Android 9.29.1

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: a crash could occur when fetching item during playback.

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Plex for Android 9.29.1

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: a crash could occur when fetching item during playback.

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Plex for Android 9.30.0

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:

  • Player: support for specifying a delay when refresh rate or resolution switching.

FIXES:

  • Player: enable HDMI passthrough by default.
  • Player: seeking in DVR recordings could crash.
  • The detail pages could sometimes be slow to load.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: downloads of content with multiple versions could fail.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: audio/subtitle selection didn’t work for downloaded content in some scenarios.
  • [TV] Activity: marking content as watched or adding to watchlist wouldn’t be reflected immediately.

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Plex for Android 9.31.0

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.

FIXES:

  • Discover: streaming services availabilities for episodes would not be displayed.
  • Player: ensure Dolby audio is setup correctly on FireTV Gen 1.
  • [Mobile] Media Access: sharing all libraries would not always work.
  • [Mobile] Profile: the page would scroll up when visiting a friend’s profile.
  • [TV] Settings: text in settings would not be fully readable.
  • [TV] App could crash when removing an item from Continue Watching.
  • [TV] Friends: the friends list was not scrollable in some situations.
  • [TV] Empty watchlist state might have not been dismissible.

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Plex for Android 9.31.1

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:

  • [TV] LiveTV: fix an issue with live tv integration on Amazon devices.

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