Release Announcements - Android TV beta

Plex Players Player Betas
422

Plex for Android 8.16.0.24176-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

BETA:

  • App could crash trying to find reachable servers at launch.

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423

Plex for Android 8.16.0.24231-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

BETA:

  • [TV] Live TV: app could crash when switching channels during playback.

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424

Plex for Android 8.16.0.24298-beta
Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

BETA:

  • Player: postplay video would not shrink.
  • Don’t make requests to nano if it’s not available.

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425

Plex for Android 8.16.0.24371-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

BETA:

  • Player: app could crash while playing specific audio content.

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426

Plex for Android 8.17.0.24676-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

WHATS NEW:

  • Player: introduce additional subtitle colors.
  • Navigation: background colors change to match the highlighted item.
  • Player: support for audio voice commands on Amazon devices.

FIXES:

  • Podcasts: fix ‘OPML import’ feature.
  • The ability to delete a playlist was missing in some places.
  • Auto: don’t show multiple music libraries from the same server.
  • Preplay: long action button titles were cut off.
  • No longer show Plex chevron on cards when they are loading.
  • App was opening itself when an expired token was detected.

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427

Plex for Android 8.17.0.24742-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

BETA:

  • App could crash trying to update playback state.
  • App could crash when accessing sources in the sidebar via more.

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428

Plex for Android 8.17.0.24840-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

BETA:

  • Preplay: app could crash when entering expanded summary screen.

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429

Plex for Android 8.17.0.24894-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

BETA:

  • App could crash trying to determine if playback was possible.
  • Live TV: app would request guide data regularly during playback.

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430

Plex for Android 8.17.0.24942-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

BETA:

  • App could crash loading the TV guide.

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431

Plex for Android 8.17.0.25028-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

BETA:

  • Avoid crash drawing a zero size background.

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432

Plex for Android 8.17.0.25084-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

BETA:

  • Player: resuming did not always set the correct offset.

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433

Plex for Android 8.17.1.25306-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

FIXES:

  • Player: skipping tracks could result in multiple tracks being skipped.

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434

Plex for Android 8.18.0.25332-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

WHATS NEW:

  • Support for TMDB and TVDB rating images on detail screens.
  • [TV] Focus highlight added to cast images on media detail screens.

FIXES:

  • Player: ensure games are scaled correctly.
  • Player: prevent black screen when playing games on some devices.
  • Player: ensure player service doesn’t crash on startup.
  • App could crash trying to display play queue viewer during playback.
  • App could crash trying to show upsell after anonymous user playback.
  • Playing theme music from a TV show could sometimes result in a crash.
  • Navigation: display proper subtitle in item cards when ‘by rating’ library sort enabled.
  • Player: app could crash when player was closing.
  • Preplay: hubs would not update correctly when moving through episodes.
  • [TV] App could crash trying to update progress of audio miniplayer.
  • [TV] Live TV: app would request guide data regularly during playback.
  • [TV] Reduce banding with blurred background.
  • [TV] Preplay: playlist reordering would not work.

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435

Plex for Android 8.18.0.25559-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

BETA:

  • Continue Watching hub in Movies & Shows would not show content.
  • Preplay: episodes would sometimes fail to display.
  • [TV] Live TV: guide info would fail to update when scrolling through items.
  • [TV] Preplay: app would crash when navigating into a single season show’s episode.

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436

Plex for Android 8.18.0.25615-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

BETA:

  • [TV] Player: D-Pad center button will show OSD when it’s hidden during audio playback

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437

Plex for Android 8.18.1.25720-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

FIXES:

  • App could crash trying to populate media details screen.
  • App could crash trying to determine if play queue was playable.
  • App could crash when trying to determine local IP address.

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438

Plex for Android 8.19.0.25897-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

WHATS NEW:

  • [TV] Player: focus cannot be moved to controls during advert playback

FIXES:

  • Search: App could crash while loading search results.
  • Player: prevent crash when closing the player.
  • Don’t try to re-fetch all home hubs if there is an error.
  • Player: ensure game sessions are terminated.
  • Player: support for Z button on N64 games.
  • Background: possible ultrablur color extraction crash.
  • App could crash during playback.
  • Preplay: app could crash when opening Preplay from home.
  • Player: prevent crash when transcoding videos with VobSub subtitles.
  • Player: app could crash trying to display ‘playback info’ menu.
  • Player: align Arabic stream names to other titles.
  • Player: show extended title for subtitles.
  • App could crash trying to find reachable servers in the background.
  • Preplay: app could incorrectly show 0 as played progress played.
  • [Hubs] Library tab will show even when there are no recommendations.
  • [TV] Live TV overflow menu was missing in certain conditions.
  • [TV] Improve the appearance of progress bars.

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439

Plex for Android 8.19.0.25987-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

BETA:

  • App could crash when fetching home recommendations.

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440

Plex for Android 8.19.0.26001-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

BETA:

  • No visible changes

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441

Plex for Android 8.19.0.26026-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

  • [TV] Add support for Favorite Channels on the Live TV guide.

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