Release Announcements - Android TV beta

romancamelia · May 30, 2019, 6:42pm

Plex for Android 7.16.1.10608-beta

Available on Google Play.

Mobile changes only.

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jesusmc · June 5, 2019, 5:29pm

Plex for Android 7.17.0.10718-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

[TV] Ensure home screen is updated after switching users.

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jesusmc · June 6, 2019, 8:51pm

Plex for Android 7.17.0.10748-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

[TV] Ensure home screen is updated after switching users.

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jesusmc · June 7, 2019, 4:49pm

Plex for Android 7.17.0.10776-beta

Available on Google Play.

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

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jesusmc · June 11, 2019, 6:09pm

Plex for Android 7.17.0.10841-beta

Available on Google Play.

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

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jesusmc · June 25, 2019, 5:06pm

Plex for Android 7.17.0.11041-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

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

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sixones · June 25, 2019, 7:57pm

Plex for Android 7.18.0.11051-beta

Available on Google Play.

NEW:

Plex’s new Android TV experience with many major enhancements including:
Customizable & always accessible sidebar navigation.
Ability to pin your favorite libraries from all your servers to the sidebar.
Reorder your libraries in the sidebar.
Quick access to all the rest of your media through the “More” menu item.
Redesigned tab views that remember your previous view within each library (can be controlled via setting).
A customizable home screen including pinning content rows from any library to home.
More information here.

FIXES:

[TV] App could crash updating home screen recommendations.
[TV] Only prompt for HDMI passthrough if it’s beneficial.
[TV] App could crash updating recommendations on Android < 8.

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sixones · June 28, 2019, 4:48pm

Plex for Android 7.18.0.11113-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

Support for x86_64 devices.

FIXES:

Crash could occur on startup when parsing the address of IPv6 devices.

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sixones · July 5, 2019, 8:59am

Plex for Android 7.18.0.11188-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

Crash could occur on startup when parsing the address of IPv6 devices.
Media did not start playing when casting from ios or web.

BETA:

Podcasts: playback would always start from the beginning.
[TV] UNO: Tabs couldn’t be accessed if there was no content.

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sixones · July 8, 2019, 7:38pm

Plex for Android 7.18.0.11228-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

Update On Deck and Continue Watching hubs in response to changes.

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sixones · July 11, 2019, 6:59pm

Plex for Android 7.18.1.11299-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

[TV] News: full screen button would not do anything.

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daioio · July 16, 2019, 8:27pm

Plex for Android 7.19.0.11403-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

[TV] New Android TV experience now enabled by default:
- Customizable & always accessible sidebar navigation.
- Ability to pin your favorite libraries from all your servers to the sidebar.
- Reorder your libraries in the sidebar.
[TV] Enable clock by default.

FIXES:

[TV] TIDAL: accessing album or artist from a playlist could display “Add to Library” action.
[TV] TIDAL: some albums could display wrong rating in their preplay screen.

BETA:

[TV] UNO: ensure focus is not lost after stopping music from mini player.
[TV] UNO: use the preferred server to display home screen recommendations.
[TV] UNO: sidebar could close when server selected if reduce motion is enabled.
[TV] UNO: support for global playlists.
[TV] UNO: add “empty home dashboard” zero state.
[TV] UNO: add “outdated server” zero state.
[TV] UNO: make sure going back from server select flow is correct.
[TV] UNO: ensure tabs update whenever a source changes.
[TV] UNO: make sure correct background is displayed on home screen.
[TV] UNO: app could crash when navigating from TIDAL source if user has no access to it.
[TV] UNO: implement Folder browsing.
[TV] UNO: zero state will not always show for empty libraries if “Reduce Motion” is enabled.
[TV] UNO: don’t remember last focused tab.
[TV] UNO: grid items could lose alignment on scroll.
[TV] UNO: make sure offline servers are selectable during first run or reset customisation.

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romancamelia · July 18, 2019, 10:33am

Plex for Android 7.19.0.11437-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

[TV] UNO: app could crash when resetting preferred server.

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daioio · July 19, 2019, 7:18pm

Plex for Android 7.19.0.11473-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

[TV] UNO: app could crash when opening certain items from Search.
[TV] UNO: app could crash when resetting preferred server.

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daioio · July 26, 2019, 4:35pm

Plex for Android 7.19.0.11571-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

TIDAL: app would crash when accessing some artist screens.

BETA:

[TV] UNO: ensure Connection lost message doesn’t show up for Playlist offline source.
[TV] UNO: app could crash when resumed.
[TV] UNO: app could crash when restoring tabs.

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daioio · July 29, 2019, 4:38pm

Plex for Android 7.19.0.11608-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

[TV] UNO: ensure pressing up from photos timeline focuses on the right view.
[TV] UNO: ensure pressing down in preplays doesn’t open sidebar.

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daioio · August 1, 2019, 6:51pm

Plex for Android 7.19.1.11692-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

[TV] UNO: ensure library does not inherit collection filter from pre-UNO. (#13548).

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daioio · August 5, 2019, 7:33pm

Plex for Android 7.19.2.11755-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

Ensure home hubs are never removed when server is offline.

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daioio · August 6, 2019, 2:47pm

Plex for Android 7.19.2.11778-beta

Available on Google Play.

No TV specific changes have been added in this release.

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SamFromPlex · August 6, 2019, 5:15pm

Plex for Android 7.20.0.11785-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

Live TV: fix app showing incorrect airing times.
Player: some devices would produce stuttering audio whilst in the background.
Player: ensure we correctly fallback to transcoding when direct play fails.
Home screen could incorrectly show items as offline.
Player: ensure MOV files can be correctly transcoded.
Flinging synced media to a remote player could fail.
[TV] Ensure item can be played from a remote control at the library level.
[TV] : would not always show correct error states for unavailable servers.

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