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Plex for Android 8.16.0.24021-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

WHATS NEW:

  • Introduce local cache for Home/Libraries to improve performance.
  • [TV] Live TV: improved scrolling within TV guide.

FIXES:

  • Continue watching hub in “Movies & TV” source would only contain 10 items.
  • Playlist thumbnails would fail to load sometimes.
  • Player: multi-part videos would only play the first two parts.
  • Home: continue watching hub would only contain 10 items from one server.
  • DVR: crash when editing a recording.
  • DVR: trying to edit a recording from the ‘Schedule’ tab resulted in an empty dialog.
  • Player: hubs would be missing from the postplay.
  • Player: potential crash when exiting during post play screen.
  • Ensure that cloud content is shown in the right language for the device.
  • Display proper subtitle in episode cards if show is date-based.
  • DVR: show ‘location’ dropdown when editing a recording if multiple locations are available.
  • Player: crash could occur when loading a stream with zero bytes of initialisation data.
  • Folder cards could be unreadable.
  • Auto: improve reliability when application hasn’t yet started.
  • Player: crash could occur when launching the player with no chapter data.
  • Player: ensure surface is prepared before playback begins.
  • Player: potential crash when closing player.
  • Player: bump ExoPlayer to r2.13.1.
  • Preplay summaries didn’t include full paragraph breaks.
  • [TV] Don’t allow too dark colors with blurred background.
  • [TV] Use default colors and ultrablur for app background.
  • [TV] Animated transition between background changes.
  • [TV] Preplay: episodes on single season shows would be missing titles.
  • [TV] Preplay: the season preplay would sometimes display previous episode’s details.
  • [TV] Player: pause playback even when buffering when app is exited.
  • [TV] Player: don’t show player notification on OS home screen when existing from Post Play.
  • [TV] Player: chapters and Live TV channels could disappear randomly.
  • [TV] Preplay summaries would sometimes not be clickable.
  • [TV] Better support for displaying metadata of date-based shows.

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