Release Announcements - Android TV beta

Plex Players Player Betas
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Plex for Android 8.2.0.18572-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

Changes only affect Mobile

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322

Plex for Android 8.2.0.18603-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

Changes only affect Mobile

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323

Plex for Android 8.2.0.18617-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • App could crash if Home screen had content from old servers.

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324

Plex for Android 8.3.0.18653-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • Add support for server update notification.
  • Play on deck episode from show and season preplay screen when applicable.
  • Player: Sleep Timer support for video
  • Watch Together: support for inviting friends during playback.

FIXES:

  • Player: start loading the next video once the postplay hides.
  • Player: prevent Skip Intro from appearing during postplay.
  • Player: improve startup speed by removing unncessary network request.
  • Player: controls would not always re-appear.
  • “Scan Library Files” action did not work from “Library” tab.
  • Player: improve playback on networks with DNS rebinding protection.
  • Live TV: minor improvement to TV guide initial loading time.
  • Player: restore playback speed when switching from Podcasts to music.
  • Player: improve look of double tap gesture.
  • Player: scale text based subtitles when entering Picture in Picture mode.
  • App could crash while loading some images.
  • Player: don’t offer subtitle downloads when connected to a remote player that doesn’t support it.
  • Player: play the same version of media when moving from remote to local playback.
  • Player: handle subtitle and audio stream selection when being controlled remotely.
  • Player: offer correct streams when casting remotely.
  • Player: display errors fullscreen when Picture in Picture is enabled
  • Player: toggle playback when either the Play or Pause buttons are pressed.
  • Player: repeat mode would not be set correctly.
  • Player: update server view state when being controlled via Companion.
  • Display Play button when swiping through the video mini-player.
  • Player: prevent potential crash when closing video player.
  • Player: Play Version was ignored if playing trailers.
  • Player: display resolution in Playback Info.
  • [TV] Left and right actions are now disabled when reordering a sidebar item.
  • [TV] Live TV: some minor improvements when scrolling up and down the TV guide.
  • [TV] Navigating down on library screen might open sidebar incorrectly.
  • [TV] Google assistant search would fail to find results.
  • [TV] “Play trailer” preplay action could cause app to crash after playing playing the item.

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325

Plex for Android 8.3.0.18715-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Switching between Home users was sometimes not possible.

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326

Plex for Android 8.3.0.18775-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • App could crash trying to play music tracks.

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327

Plex for Android 8.3.0.18867-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Live TV: fix progress display sometimes showing incorrectly on TV guide.
  • Live TV: further improvements to TV guide loading times.
  • [TV] Preplay: mark as watched action would not refresh the screen.

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328

Plex for Android 8.3.0.18893-beta

Available on Google Play.

Internal changes only.

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329

Plex for Android 8.3.1.19088-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • [TV] Live TV: focus the currenty airing item when entering PiG.

FIXES:

  • Player: scale subtitles when displaying guide.
  • Player: improve experience when switching to and from the guide.
  • Player: improve messaging around buffering scenarios.
  • Player: clean up resources after playback ends.
  • Player: improve startup speed by removing (another) unncessary network request.

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330

Plex for Android 8.4.0.19098-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • [TV] More tweaks to the sidebar.

FIXES:

  • Make sure geo-restricted video can be added to watchlist.
  • Player: hide “Go to video” option for news videos.
  • Player: quickly hitting “Next”/“Previous” buttons could display incorrect information about item played.
  • Player: provide proper audio ducking mechanism.
  • Watched progress was not saved when playback started from OS recommendation.

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331

Plex for Android 8.4.0.19157-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Live TV: ensure Picture in Picture is not available when Picture in Guide is available.

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332

Plex for Android 8.4.0.19219-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • App could crash trying to populate Home screen.

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333

Plex for Android 8.4.0.19231-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Was not possible to navigate to some tabs with “Remember selected tab” setting enabled.

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334

Plex for Android 8.4.1.19315-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Player: watching channels with smaller airings could fail to display the next airing in the player.
  • Player: update what’s playing for Live TV.

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335

Plex for Android 8.4.2.19371-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • App could crash starting audio playback.
  • App could crash at the end of a photo carousel.

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336

Plex for Android 8.5.0.19400-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • [TV] Sign in with Google on devices with Google Play Services.
  • [TV] Default Recommendation Channel now reflects home screen.

FIXES:

  • Player: crash could occur when switching to the next video.
  • Player: improve startup speed when initially loading.
  • Player: improve starting quality when playing adaptive video.
  • [TV] Live TV: app could crash if guide was focussed before grid had completely loaded.
  • [TV] Updated background colour.
  • [TV] Updated tab and sidebar styles.

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337

Plex for Android 8.5.0.19468-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Player: crash could still occur when switching to the next video, if display mode switching was enabled.
  • [TV] Player: crash when exiting the video player.

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338

Plex for Android 8.5.0.19518-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • TIDAL playlists were missing their artwork.
  • [TV] Player: crash when exiting the video player.

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339

Plex for Android 8.5.0.19547-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Player: prevent crash when a HDMI handshake occurs during playback.

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340

Plex for Android 8.5.0.19602-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Live TV: Auto pin the Cloud EPG source.

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