Plex for Android

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Plex for Android 10.14.0

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:

  • [Mobile] Downloads: add pause/resume functionality to downloads.

FIXES:

  • Search: distinguish between two simultaneous Live TV airings.
  • Profile: the app could display some data on a blocked user’s profile.
  • Home: items were endlessly repeated when viewing all items in a hub.
  • Player: app could crash when stopping a transcode session.
  • Navigation: the selected tab could be remembered even if the setting was disabled.
  • Watchlist: adding an item to the Watchlist and then switching users would incorrectly show the item as being in the second user’s Watchlist.
  • Preplay: update the appearance of content availability cards.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: deleted download could flash before disappearing.
  • [Mobile] Player: moving between photos would not update the toolbar.
  • [TV] Player: updating the playback notification could crash.
  • [TV] Preplay: miniseries could have two toolbars displayed.
  • [TV] App could crash after being resumed from background.
  • [TV] Player: photo slideshow would not stay stopped after moving to the next photo.
  • [TV] Feed: the context menu was erroneously shown on the activity details page.

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Plex for Android 10.15.0

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.

FIXES:

  • Profile: app would behave erratically after removing a rating.
  • Some activities would not be correctly removed from the activity details page.
  • Player: playback support for 8K (requires compatible device).
  • [TV] Library: app could crash when scrolling through content.
  • [TV] App could crash when navigating to the Library tab.
  • [TV] Resuming from “Play Next” hub in Google Homescreen could start from the beginning.

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Plex for Android 10.15.1

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:

  • [TV] Onboarding: app could crash during the onboarding flow.

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506

Plex for Android 10.16.0

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:

  • Updated watched badge icon to better support different themes.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: delete downloads when user is signed out.
  • [TV] Discover Together: improved the navigation around user activities.

FIXES:

  • Pressing the back button would not close context menus.
  • Search: display air date for daily shows instead of year.
  • Player: ignore container offset when using an invalid value.
  • [Mobile] Profile: the badges were incorrectly disabled for all users.
  • [TV] LiveTV: inline video would start with audio for a split second.

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507

Plex for Android 10.16.1

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:

  • [TV] App could crash on startup.

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508

Plex for Android 10.17.0

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.

FIXES:

  • App could crash when changing user.
  • Player: prevent crash when demuxing file with massive packets.
  • Player: playback of a TV Show collection would not start.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: change swipe to remove label from ‘Cancel’ to ‘Delete’ for complete subscriptions.

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Plex for Android 10.18.0

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.

FIXES:

  • Pressing the back button would not close context menus in some cases.
  • The app would prompt for a sign in when visiting the Watchlist after signing up.
  • Unwatched episodes count would not be displayed on show posters.
  • Search: some daily Live TV shows weren’t displaying an episode number.
  • Player: ensure 4K TCL TV’s can play 4K videos.
  • Viewing all profile ratings would result in an error.
  • [Mobile] Downloads: Skip Credits button would not be shown for downloads.
  • [Mobile] Player: displayed speed would be rounded up to one decimal digit.
  • [TV] artwork on Google’s “Play Next” tiles would look stretched.

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Plex for Android 10.18.1

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 upon accessing the user profile.

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511

Plex for Android 10.19.0

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.

FIXES:

  • App could crash opening a grid of items.
  • LiveTV: audio only channels wouldn’t play
  • [Mobile] App could crash after opening a deeplink.
  • [TV] Home: the Home tab could remain in a selected state when going to Activity.
  • [TV] NVIDIA SHIELD: Media Server settings would not be displayed in some situations.

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512

Plex for Android 10.19.1

Available on Google Play.

NOTE: We are performing a staged rollout, which means the update may take a day or two before it becomes available.

FIXES:

  • Player: ensure backlighting support is available on Sony TV’s when playing HDR or DoVi content.

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513

Plex for Android 10.19.2

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] Homescreen: crash could occur when loading.

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514

Plex for Android 10.19.4

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:

  • Home: the continue watching hub would not update.

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515

Plex for Android 10.20.0

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:

  • Removed redundant unwatched information from the show library grid.
  • Player: parse and use rotation information from the video.

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516

Plex for Android 10.20.1

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.

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Plex for Android 10.21.0

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.

WHATS NEW:

  • Player: setting in playback settings to show playback nerd statistics.

FIXES:

  • Player: ensure subtitles are re-enabled after an advert break.

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Plex for Android 10.21.1

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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519

Plex for Android 10.22.0

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.

FIXES:

  • [TV] Profile: the app would make unnecessary requests when removing activities.

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Plex for Android 10.22.1

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] Reviews: the privacy selector would display unavailable values.

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521

Plex for Android 10.23.0

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:

  • Plex for Android now only supports devices running Android 6.0 and higher.

FIXES:

  • Profile: account visibility setting would show ‘private’ as an option erroneously.
  • Search: navigating to a Plex Movies & Shows genre would fail.
  • Search: navigating to collections would result in an empty page or crash.

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Plex for Android 10.24.0

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:

  • [TV] Player: update default setting for “Show Up next”.

FIXES:

  • Reviews: deleting a review in the detail page would not always refresh it.

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