Release Announcements - Android TV beta

Plex Players Player Betas
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Plex for Android 9.13.0.37260-beta

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

FIXES:

  • [TV] App could crash trying to open an episode detail page. (#24116)

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2 Likes
586

Plex for Android 9.13.1.37355-beta

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

  • App could crash on startup on Blaupunkt devices. (#23974)

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2 Likes
587

Plex for Android 9.13.1.37378-beta

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

FIXES:

  • Player: allow DoVi when direct streaming.
  • App could crash on startup on Blaupunkt devices.

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3 Likes
588

Plex for Android 9.14.0.37678-beta

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

WHATS NEW:

  • Add support for grouped streaming service preferences.
  • [TV] Feed: scroll to the first item in the feed when the back button is pressed.
  • [TV] Player: prevent playback from continuing when display is turned off.

FIXES:

  • Search: query with no results would result in infinite spinner.
  • Player: support for DTS and DTS:HD passthrough on FireTV Cube 3rd Gen.
  • Player: prevent crash playing music in the background.
  • App could crash after being restored from the background.
  • Review cards could be duplicated in detail pages.
  • App could crash after trying to switch layouts.
  • Player: ensure subtitle icon appears correctly on Android 5.1 and below.
  • Player: hide buttons when they are unavailable.
  • Player: app could crash when closing the player.
  • App could crash during launch.
  • App could crash on startup on Blaupunkt devices.
  • Player: allow DoVi when direct streaming.
  • [TV] Some rows didn’t display metadata details when focused.
  • [TV] Player: allow “A” button on a game controller to skip the intro.
  • [TV] Settings: the app could crash when opening the settings screen.
  • [TV] Prevent tabs from overlapping clock.
  • [TV] Ensure that first item of overflow menus is focused initially.
  • [TV] Display multiple directors in movie and TV show detail pages.
  • [TV] Unfocused episodes were dimmed when navigating to season detail pages.
  • [TV] LiveTV: a crash might occur on timeline updates whilst browsing the TV Guide.
  • [TV] LiveTV: TV Guide would show empty airings on timeline updates.

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6 Likes
589

Plex for Android 9.14.0.37756-beta

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

BETA:

  • Player: ensure playback doesn’t end when playing TrueHD on Amazon Fire TV Cube 3rd Gen.
  • [TV] Discover: location picker for episodes didn’t display library names.

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2 Likes
590

Plex for Android 9.14.0.37777-beta

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

FIXES:

  • [TV] App could erroneously display a “No items to display” message in the Home section.

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4 Likes
591

Plex for Android 9.14.0.37846-beta

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

Changes for this version only impact mobile devices.

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2 Likes
592

Plex for Android 9.14.0.37871-beta

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

Changes for this version only impact mobile devices.

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2 Likes
593

Plex for Android 9.15.0.37956-beta

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

WHATS NEW:

  • Player: upgrade ExoPlayer to v2.18.2.
  • Show user picker after sign-in if Plex Home has more than 1 user or if the pin is enabled.

FIXES:

  • Trailers could not be played from Home section.
  • App could crash trying to verify PIN after a user switch.
  • Player: prevent crash when subtitles are selected and an advert is played.
  • App could crash trying to populate Home source.
  • Live TV: app could crash generating the title of some channels.
  • Platform: app could crash on startup for a small number of users.
  • Search: app could crash after clearing search query.
  • App could crash displaying lyrics during audio playback.
  • App could crash navigating to episode preplay from availability picker.
  • Search: app could crash during keyboard hiding transition.
  • App could crash after being sent to the background with Filmography page open.

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3 Likes
594

Plex for Android 9.15.0.38015-beta

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

FIXES:

  • Platform: app could crash on start up on certain devices.

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2 Likes
595

Plex for Android 9.15.0.38108-beta

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

FIXES:

  • Player: prevent crash when a player error occurs.

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2 Likes
596

Plex for Android 9.16.0.38294-beta

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

WHATS NEW:

  • Player: AV1 support (compatible SOC required).
  • [TV] Feed: add button to view the full message when the message is long.

FIXES:

  • Player: prevent playback ending when quality is changed.
  • Plex Home: provide better feedback when wrong PIN entered.
  • Player: prevent crash when playing with equalizer open.
  • DVR: app could crash showing recording options dialog.
  • Player: prevent memory leak when software decoding video.
  • App could crash trying to display some library photos.
  • Player: app could crash during Live TV playback.
  • Player: don’t crash trying to show dialog with empty message.
  • Platform: App could crash when signing in on certain devices.
  • App could crash when trying to authenticate a user.
  • App could crash after wrong PIN entered in user switcher.
  • Live TV: app could crash trying to play items of certain types.
  • Player: app could crash after stopping playback.
  • Player: improve buffer size to prevent excessive buffering.
  • App could crash trying to show “available subscriptions” dialog.
  • Player: prevent random crash when player service is destroyed.
  • [TV] App could crash during subtitle search.
  • [TV] Platform: App could crash trying to load background images.
  • [TV] App could crash trying to display some grid sections.
  • [TV] The incorrect tab would display as selected when remember selected tab was disabled.
  • [TV] Ensure playlist reorder icon appears correctly on Android 5.1 and below.

BETA:

  • Search: make sure that tabs are always displayed.

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3 Likes
597

Plex for Android 9.16.0.38326-beta

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

BETA:

  • Plex Pass was not available after subscription purchase unless app restarted.
  • Player: use less memory for cache when device is low on memory.

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3 Likes
598

Plex for Android 9.16.0.38368-beta

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

BETA:

  • Improved memory use by reusing background images when possible.

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3 Likes
599

Plex for Android 9.16.0.38505-beta

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

  • No changes affecting the Android TV app.

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2 Likes
600

Plex for Android 9.17.0.38671-beta

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

WHATS NEW:

  • Discover: improved experience when opening external service and required app not installed.

FIXES:

  • App could crash on startup when the device is set to use certain languages.
  • The app could open to a blank screen.
  • Player: cellular limit was sometimes not respected.
  • Feed: the “Remove Activity” option could be shown on other users’ activities.
  • LiveTV: airings on the TVGuide would sometimes not populate properly when scrolling back from a future date.
  • Preplay: app could crash generating file details for local videos.
  • LiveTV: shows would sometimes not play from a details view.
  • Player: prevent constant drop frames on 720p recordings on Chromecast with Google TV devices.
  • Player: fallback to HDR when DoVi profile isn’t supported.
  • Platform: in app alerts and confirmations would sometimes fail to show.
  • LiveTV: create placeholder for channels that return no airings.
  • Fix issue where opening a person page could cause a PMS local media scan.
  • Home: app could crash while loading home.
  • Player: showing the postplay during credits didn’t let you return to the video.
  • App could crash trying to start downloading content while in the background.
  • Player: prevent crash during service launch.
  • App could crash during server update process.
  • [TV] LiveTV: fix an issue where going back to the TVGuide would not focus the channel currently playing.
  • [TV] Platform: pin code for sign up shown incorrectly with RTL languages.
  • [TV] Platform: first launch of discovery could fail to load inline metadata.
  • [TV] LiveTV: first row on the TVGuide would sometimes show repeated airings.
  • [TV] App could crash trying to display settings screen.
  • [TV] Preplay: don’t show played badge for music albums.
  • [TV] Player: prevent crash showing seek overlay when playback ends.
  • [TV] App could crash trying to display a cast member’s filmography.
  • [TV] Navigating to Discover episodes would fail sometimes.
  • [TV] App could crash during PIN login.

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2 Likes
601

Plex for Android 9.17.0.38689-beta

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

BETA:

  • People detail pages: show location picker when item from “In Media Libraries” row selected.

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2 Likes
602

Plex for Android 9.17.0.38819-beta

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

FIXES:

  • Improvements to the way deep links are handled.

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2 Likes
603

Plex for Android 9.19.0.85-beta

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

WHATS NEW:

  • Include “add/remove from preferred services” action in context menu of streaming service cards.
  • Search: new tab for streaming service results.

FIXES:

  • Showing the “error connecting to server” dialog could crash the app.
  • Deeplinks: app required 2 extra back presses when opening from a live tv deeplink.
  • Platform: fix image corners being clipped on low end devices

  • People pages: exclude shows from “in your media libraries” hub if the person doesn’t have a main role.
  • App could crash when trying to sign in if the device can’t open webviews.
  • Search: selected tab continued to be selected after being removed.
  • People detail pages: don’t show library picker when selected item is available in a single library.
  • LiveTV: first timeline block in the TVGuide didn’t always display as “NOW”.
  • Detail pages: wrong initials were used for items in Cast row.
  • Use correct text for “mark as watched” confirmation dialog.
  • [TV] Player: app could crash trying to display track list during music playback.
  • [TV] Platform: buttons could be displayed at incorrect sizes.
  • [TV] App could crash due to wrong source selected on sidebar.
  • [TV] App could crash trying to open some external streaming services.

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1 Like
604

Plex for Android 9.19.1.487-beta

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

FIXES:

  • Player: ensure auto play is advancing to the next episode.
  • [TV] Player: prevent focus noise from constantly occurring when skip intro is shown.

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3 Likes