Release Announcements - Android TV beta

Plex Players Player Betas
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Plex for Android 7.26.0.14321-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • Live TV: TV guide now loads more of the future scehdule.

FIXES:

  • Playback: ensure that when resuming remote content locally, it does actually start.
  • Ensure home screen hubs are refreshed often enough.
  • [TV] Player: prevent crash when no display modes are available.
  • [TV] “Add to library” action was missing for TIDAL content.

BETA:

  • Player: prevent crash when searching for subtitles.

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262

Plex for Android 7.26.0.14345-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Android Auto: improve playback over voice search.

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263

Plex for Android 7.26.0.14385-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Don’t reset customisations of users without a server.

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264

Plex for Android 7.26.0.14396-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [TV] Drawing of unwatched indicators could significantly impact performance.

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265

Plex for Android 7.26.0.14438-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • [TV] Player: pressing B or ESC now behaves as a back press.

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266

Plex for Android 7.26.0.14521-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Prevent crash when deleting an item from a hub.

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267

Plex for Android 7.27.0.14746-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • [Cast] Player: support modifying repeat mode during playback.
  • [Sync] Action exposed in poster menu for more media types.
  • [TV] User avatars added next to servers in sidebar “more” menu.

FIXES:

  • Improve how related content is displayed in preplay screens.
  • Android Auto: improve information displayed for podcasts content.
  • User could be randomly logged out of the app.
  • Player: update settings to reflect stream selection changes.
  • Player: ensure postplay doesn’t keep the screen awake.
  • Android Auto: fix issue where sections with large content could not load.
  • First run picker would sometimes not include sources from the selected media server.
  • Storage permission might not show when accessing camera roll content.
  • Playback: videos in photo libraries would only play once.
  • Player: ensure playback continues after switching audio streams.
  • Player: support for refresh rate / resolution switching with cloud content.
  • [TV] Some filters would not work.
  • [TV] Preplay: improve audio and video stream display.
  • [TV] Live TV: sidebar could be lost when using DVR schedule from “more”.
  • [TV] Prevent potential crash on pre-play screen.
  • [TV] Live TV: fix unable to focus tab bar in TV guide
  • [TV] Tweaks to the user interface

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268

Plex for Android 7.27.0.14824-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • App could crash on startup.
  • [TV] Lyrics were not correctly displayed for first played track.

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269

Plex for Android 7.27.0.14844-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • No user-facing changes on TV.

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270

Plex for Android 7.27.0.14941-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • No user-facing changes on TV.

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271

Plex for Android 7.27.0.14964-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [TV] Photo Albums would only load favorites.

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272

Plex for Android 7.28.0.15170-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • [TV] Source settings added to a new overflow menu in the top bar.
  • [TV] Border added to currently focused item in settings.

FIXES:

  • Live TV: force transcoding of unsupported interlaced content on Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K.
  • Live TV: fix issue preventing transcode of video.
  • Player: reduce buffer size to improve playback on lower end devices.
  • Player: prevent crash when searching for subtitles.
  • Artist Radio Play Queues don’t contain tracks from shared sources.
  • Playback: fix issue preventing WMA support.
  • Live TV: fix unable to record show if selecting library to save recording to.
  • Playback didn’t work on versions of Plex Media Server older than 1.10.
  • Offline “Playlists” tab was missing.
  • Live TV: ensure recorded live TV uses new player.
  • Make sure same home hubs from different servers show right content.
  • Improve how related content is displayed in preplay screens.
  • Server claiming prompt was missing for signed out servers on local network.
  • “All episodes” view was formatted incorrectly for TV shows.
  • Live TV: improve channel ordering fallbacks on TV guide for XMLTV users.
  • [TV] Clear the zero state when backing out of an empty folder view.
  • [TV] Live TV: fix a potential crash in the recording schedule.
  • [TV] Improve sidebar scrolling vertically.
  • [TV] Filter buttons would sometimes crop when there is no items.
  • [TV] Tabs would not always show if there was no items.
  • [TV] Hub items are no longer cut off while scrolling. (Part of #14741)
  • [TV] Don’t reload the same source when we only have 1 tab and remember selected tab is off.
  • [TV] Focus no longer jumps from Sort to Tabs.
  • [TV] News: fix crash when navigating to “channels” from the browse section.
  • [TV] Center text under settings cards.

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273

Plex for Android 7.28.0.15196-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Restrict Facebook SDK for Login with Facebook only.

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274

Plex for Android 7.28.0.15265-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Fix crash creating a playlist from a nested folder view.

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275

Plex for Android 7.28.0.15363-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Player: improve playback performance on low memory devices.

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276

Plex for Android 7.28.0.15368-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Player: ensure the correct stream is selected when rendering.

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277

Plex for Android 7.28.0.15375-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [TV] App could sometimes crash opening the overflow menu in the toolbar.

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278

Plex for Android 7.28.0.15447-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • App could crash when adding a new user if plex home was not set up.

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279

Plexfor Android 7.28.0.15460beta*

Available on Google Play

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280

Plex for Android 7.28.0.15493-beta

Available on Google Play.

Mobile changes only.

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