Release Announcements - Android TV beta

Plex Players Player Betas
181

Plex for Android 7.12.0.9193-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:
- Playback: audio content could make app crash on devices running Android < 6.

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182

Plex for Android 7.12.0.9272-beta

Available on Google Play.

This release does not include any changes that affect the Android TV platform.

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183

Plex for Android 7.13.0.9390-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • Display signal quality during Live TV playback.
  • Add support for subtitle styling.
  • Remember if audio visualizers were enabled.
  • Add support for subtitle styling when casting to Chromecast.

FIXES:

  • Playback: app could crash when exiting audio player.
  • Playback: potential crash when starting playback.
  • Error message would not display when there was no content.
  • Playback: failure to direct play videos that contain large embedded attachments (e.g. fonts).
  • App could crash for users with FreeNAS/FreeBSD setup when pressing record on an episode.
  • Playback: donā€™t rebuffer when switching audio or subtitle tracks.
  • Playback: changes to passthrough support was not always detected, leading to failure to direct play.
  • [TV] Prevent focus getting lost when scrolling to end of controls during Live TV playback.
  • [TV] Lyrics upsell indicator could be incorrectly displayed.
  • [TV] Fix RTL language alignment for PIN code when linking your Android TV device.

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184

Plex for Android 7.13.0.9404-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Improved logging when crash occurs.

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185

Plex for Android 7.13.0.9449-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • [TV] Video playback could be resumed from controller playback buttons while in home screen.

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186

Plex for Android 7.14.0.9725-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • Remote playback can now control subtitle size, color, position and offset.

FIXES:

  • Improvements to application start-up time.
  • Playback: improve headset action handling when playback is backgrounded.
  • Playback: donā€™t reset position when toggling shuffle/repeat.
  • Playback: audio smooth fades would only work when loudness leveling was enabled.
  • Playback: audio smooth fades were not available for synced content.
  • Live TV: fix incorrect progress in ā€œOn right nowā€ cards.
  • Playback: donā€™t notify to restart playback when audio capabilities change.
  • Playback: improve native log handling.
  • Local Playback: media analysis of files would fail resulting in a 10s wait.
  • [TV] Playback: video player controls are unresponsive if video started while audio was playing.
  • [TV] Starting playback from ā€œPopular tracksā€ selection could not create correct Play Queue.
  • [TV] Ensure cellular limitā€™s are never applied.

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187

Plex for Android 7.14.0.9748-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • [TV] Video playback could be resumed from controller playback buttons if paused before going to home screen.

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188

Plex for Android 7.14.0.9809-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Playback: update gnuTLS for Android Q support.

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189

Plex for Android 7.14.0.9882-beta

Available on Google Play.

This release does not include any changes that affect the Android TV platform.

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190

Plex for Android 7.14.0.9943-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • App could crash when starting video playback.

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191

Plex for Android 7.15.0.10030-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • App could crash when starting playback with subtitles.
  • Improve search when handling lots of results.
  • Improve startup management and prevent boot actions from crashing the app on startup.
  • Prevent crash while establishing connection types for server.
  • Prevent crash whilst determining a devices reachability.
  • Playback: prevent race condition that could result in a crash before video playback.
  • Playback: Soundprint visualiser would only show 50% of the track.
  • Playback: direct play 7.1 AAC when supported.
  • Subtitle search would not fetch subtitles for the current item in the play queue.
  • Playback: playqueue order icon could not be displayed in tablets.
  • Prevent crash when opening local content. (plex-media-server#9865)
  • [TV] Video playback could be resumed from controller playback buttons if paused before going to home screen.
  • [TV] App could crash on startup if closed during initial server selection.
  • [TV] The app could crash on some devices when recommending content.
  • [TV] App could crash when moving to the next item at the end of a play queue.
  • [TV] Make sure News UI is rendered correctly on Sony devices.

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192

Plex for Android 7.15.0.10094-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • App could crash loading an item.
  • App could crash refreshing resources.

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193

Plex for Android 7.15.0.10127-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Prevent crash when scheduling background work.
  • Playback: crash playing music where limited loudness data was available.

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194

Plex for Android 7.15.0.10165-beta

Available on Google Play.

Mobile changes only.

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195

Plex for Android 7.15.0.10182-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

Mobile changes only.

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196

Plex for Android 7.16.0.10280-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • [TV] Subtitle search could change the currently played item.
  • [TV] App did sometimes not handle focus correctly when displaying timed lyrics.

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197

Plex for Android 7.16.0.10308-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

Mobile changes only.

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198

Plex for Android 7.16.0.10335-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

Mobile changes only.

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199

Plex for Android 7.16.0.10438-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Downloading on-demand subtitles could fail.
  • [TV] App could not play TIDAL content added to a PMS library.

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200

Plex for Android 7.16.0.10508-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [TV] Player: make sure new audio player is used.
  • [TV] Player: improve seek support when using the network cache.

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