I’ll add a couple of mine here as well…
- Sync is a hit and miss on Android (both movies & music). Furthermore, many a times it crashes PMS. Think of that when one might be traveling and for those who don’t have something like Teamviewer. You should have a secondary Plex service to restart the PMS when a crash happens.
- Android App crashes 50% of the time, could be due to network when used remotely but it still shouldn’t crash.
- Please please please use this sample video site to test all your clients https://kodi.wiki/view/Samples before each release.
For UI please have a Universal Look & Feel. If you provide photo-art of cast on PlexWeb then it should be there for all clients.
Finally, I just tried the Emby Android App (again) and I think you should too. It has come a long way since I hated it 2 years back. It’s biggest advantage is its ability to fully manage the server, including simple things like providing a restart button. Please don’t mention using PlexWeb, my TV has a browser too.
I believe I have gone off track with my Android grievances so in closing I want to add that “old technology/ancient protocol” as has been touted for plugins is necessarily not always bad when implemented correctly - it allows old hardware to still function as a viable option.
Sorry but I beg to differ. Plugins for 5+ years got no attention from the Plex core team in terms of framework development/maintenance. The official plugins were developed and maintained by Ninjas. Furthermore, if that was the case there wouldn’t be unwanted new features like News & Live TV be introduced before fixing the current bugs. If they were serious about bug there would be a public issue tracker. Period.
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