Release Announcements - Android TV beta

Plex Players Player Betas
361

Plex for Android 8.7.2.20953-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • [TV] Was not possible to focus Search or Mini-player in tabs toolbar

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362

Plex for Android 8.8.0.20999-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • Bump the minimum supported Plex Media Server version to 1.15.2.
  • Player: support for Dolby Vision in MKV.
  • Player: Live TV is no longer supported in the old player.

FIXES:

  • Last selected tab within a source was remembered across users.
  • Populate the home screen faster.
  • [TV] Sidebar was not open by default when app started cold.
  • [TV] Photo albums could display incorrectly.
  • [TV] Grid collection could display misaligned items under certain circumstances.
  • [TV] Preplay actions could lose focus when screen was reloading.
  • [TV] Language selection wouldn’t work from inside the player when searching for subtitles.
  • [TV] Live TV: the app could crash if scrolling the TV guide while new data is loading.

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5 Likes
363

Plex for Android 8.8.0.21038-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • App could crash when navigating through photos on a slideshow.
  • Player: Dolby Vision wasn’t always configured correctly.

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2 Likes
364

Plex for Android 8.8.0.21074-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [TV] Play button on details screen would not always play the correct epsiode.

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1 Like
365

Plex for Android 8.8.0.21167-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [TV] Preplays: app would crash when navigating to a list of tracks from a movie/tv show.
  • [TV] Player: clicking “More” in audio player cause app to crash.
  • [TV] Preplays: “Add to my X” button couldn’t be focused on older devices.
  • [TV] Photos: app could crash when closing video playback in a photo library.

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366

Plex for Android 8.8.1.21331-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Navigation: app could crash when navigating between sections.
  • App could crash when performing search.
  • Player: ensure player closes when the audio queue finishes.

BETA:

  • Player: ensure the correct episodes are displayed on the postplay.

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367

Plex for Android 8.9.0.21334-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • [TV] Player: support for audio fading, boosting voices, loudness leveling and shortening silences for music and postcast.

FIXES:

  • Player: don’t seek to the very end when playing Live TV from PMS.
  • [TV] Preplay: 2K videos were incorrectly labelled as SD instead of HD.
  • [TV] Preplay: prevent theme music from briefly playing in another preplay.
  • [TV] Player: bring advanced audio playback features.
  • [TV] Results could display incorrectly when using Android TV Google Assistant search.

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2 Likes
368

Plex for Android 8.9.0.21426-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Application could become irresponsive trying to populate Home screen.

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369

Plex for Android 8.9.0.21466-beta

Available on Google Play.

NEW:

  • [TV] Preplay: show a label on HDR content

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1 Like
370

Plex for Android 8.9.0.21480-beta

Available on Google Play.

No changes impacting this platform

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371

Plex for Android 8.9.0.21490-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Better way to deal with some errors during a subscription purchase.

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372

Plex for Android 8.9.0.21512-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [TV] Tabs could steal focus when returning from Preplay.

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373

Plex for Android 8.9.0.21577-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • App could crash trying to show ‘start from offset’ dialog before playback.

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374

Plex for Android 8.10.0.21667-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • Preplay: add “Play from Start” action.
  • [TV] Focused cards now have a border accent.

FIXES:

  • Player: prevent the postplay from keeping the screen awake indefinitely.
  • Libraries under More are now ordered ordered alphabetically.
  • [TV] Search: genre items could not have proper style.
  • [TV] Performance: minor improvements to image loading and quality.
  • [TV] Player: disable DTS passthrough for Google TV.
  • [TV] General: loading dialog could sometimes fail to dismiss.
  • [TV] Clicking the play button on the remote when browsing a section would play the whole section instead of the selected item.
  • [TV] App could crash when displaying items that are in progress.
  • [TV] Performance: improve sidebar responsiveness.
  • [TV] Live TV: improve picture in guide experience for Chromecast.
  • [TV] Preplays: support playlist reordering.
  • [TV] Hitting back from Settings was losing sidebar focus.

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1 Like
375

Plex for Android 8.10.0.21721-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Player: app could crash when starting certan content.

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376

Plex for Android 8.10.0.21743-beta

Available on Google Play.

Mobile changes only.

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377

Plex for Android 8.10.0.21765-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • [TV] Preplay: use grid for collection Preplay.

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378

Plex for Android 8.10.0.21816-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • [TV] Preplay: app would crash when playing the tracks from a movie/tv show.

BETA:

  • [TV] App could randomly crash while navigating between screens.

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379

Plex for Android 8.10.0.21860-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [TV] Navigation: fast scrolling through big libraries could cause elements to misalign.

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380

Plex for Android 8.10.0.21914-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • App could crash trying to display some item images.

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