Release Announcements - Android TV beta

Plex for Android 6.5.0.1961-beta

Available on Google Play

BETA:

  • Crash could occur when restoring saved PQ when starting app.

Plex for Android 6.6.0.2006-beta

Available on Google Play

WHATS NEW:

  • Live TV: add ‘watch channel’ option to items that will start airing soon.
  • Add support for purchasing a lifetime Plex Pass subscription within the app.
  • Voice search support for music.

FIXES:

  • Improve memory footprint during video playback.

Plex for Android 6.6.0.2088-beta

Available on Google Play

This version only includes internal changes that don’t affect current features.

Plex for Android 6.6.0.2251-beta

Available on Google Play.

Changes with respect to previous beta:

  • Crash signing out of the app.
  • Crash in Newscast screen when playback fails.
  • News: crash opening on 1st gen Fire TV.

Plex for Android 6.6.0.2304-beta

Available on Google Play

This version only includes internal changes that don’t affect current features.

Plex for Android 6.6.0.2354-beta

Available on Google Play, .

BETA:

  • Fix crash on startup in Android 7.

Plex for Android 6.7.0.2410-beta

Available on Google Play, .

WHATS NEW:

  • [TV] News: can now show icons for cards on channel and category browse screens.

FIXES:

  • Sync: automatically resume syncing after changing the storage limit.
  • Show interlaced video resolution flags in preplay screens.
  • [TV] Live: “Watch Now” section could start behaving incorrectly after tuning several channels.
  • [TV] Scroll card titles when focused.
  • [TV] News: crash could occur if quickly entering and exiting from News screen.
  • [TV] “Play original quality” setting in video player could fail.
  • [TV] News: attempting to play items from channel browse screen could fail.
  • [TV] News: add Confirm button when changing countries for local channels.
  • [TV] News: improve invalid zip code error.
  • [TV] Play button on remote controls can be used to skip preplay.
  • [TV] News: zip code is not mandatory when setting location.
  • Live: playback would fail in case of conflicts.

Plex for Android 6.7.0.2428-beta

Available on Google Play

FIXES:

  • News: improve seeking in videos.

Plex for Android 6.8.0.2564-beta

Available on Google Play

WHATS NEW:

  • Display hardware transcoding status in video player info overlay.
  • Local playback: text based ASS/SSA subtitle support.
  • Local playback: support for background scanning and thumbnail generation.
  • Support quality selection during Live TV playback.

FIXES:

  • Local playback: indefinite spinner could appear when trying to playback from a file explorer.
  • Sync: audio qualities includes an invalid option.
  • Auto: ensure search doesn’t crash when no music is available.
  • Local playback: crash occurred opening files with 250mbps+ bitrates.

Plex for Android 6.8.0.2591-beta

Available on Google Play

FIXES:

  • App could crash on video ended during playback.

Plex for Android 6.9.0.2606-beta

Note: Due to an internal issue we need to skip 6.8 release, so though technically the same, new releases are named as 6.9

Available on Google Play.

FIXES

  • App still crashing on startup on Android 4 devices.

Plex for Android 6.9.0.2631-beta

Available on Google Play

Changes don’t affect TV

Plex for Android 6.9.0.2672-beta

Available on Google Play

Changes don’t affect TV

Plex for Android 6.10.0.2787-beta

Available on Google Play

WHATS NEW:

  • Live: support for seeking back into an on-going recording
  • Local playback: support external ASS/SSA subtitles.
  • [TV] Add links to Privacy and Terms of Service in Advanced Settings screen.
  • [TV] News: show channel/topics of the playing video while in fullscreen.
  • [TV] News: channel/topics subscriptions are shown in a dialog.

FIXES:

  • Fix crash on startup when preferences haven’t yet been loaded.
  • Camera Upload: changing user name locks feature access.
  • News: activation dialog displayed when playing News content from search results.
  • News: Unfollow/unmute actions didn’t work correctly.
  • [TV] Navigating right in the fullscreen News play queue would cause the focus indicator to disappear.
  • [TV] News: app could crash when returning from search.
  • [TV] “Play video” action visible in overflow menu for video play queue list.
  • [TV] Avoid 25hz, 29hz and 30hz refresh rates when the multiple is available.
  • [TV] “Go to artist” and “Go to album” actions displayed for video content.
  • [TV] Don’t show recent playlists on home screen if there weren’t any recent creations.

Plex for Android 6.10.0.2813-beta

Available on Google Play

BETA:

  • Crash performing seek in video player.
  • Crash selecting “Play from beginning” option when playing video content.
  • Video could not be resumed from last watched offset.
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Plex for Android 6.10.0.2853-beta

Available on Google Play

BETA:

  • Crash playing audio when network connection is unavailable.
  • Playing the next item in a playlist would get stuck.
  • Crash could occur playing Newscast content.
  • Transcoded video is slow to resume.

Plex for Android 6.10.0.2871-beta

Available on Google Play

This version only includes internal changes that don’t affect current features.

Plex for Android 6.10.0.2909-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [TV] News: Synchronize news topic states between mini player and full screen.

Plex for Android 6.11.0.2943-beta

Available on Google Play

WHATS NEW:

  • Support for Android Oreo notification categories.

FIXES:

  • App displays status and navigation bar when TV layout is selected.
  • Crash clicking in “Manage” option in Live TV recording conflict dialog.
  • App could crash when finishing the splash activity.
  • [TV] Crash opening overflow menu in video player when playing last item in Play Queue.
  • [TV] Playlist preplay screen not loading more content correctly.
1 Like

Plex for Android 6.11.0.2997-beta

Available on Google Play

BETA:

  • App could crash on devices with API < 19.
  • [News] Player does not go to the next video in the queue.
  • [TV] News: navigating right from video player would not focus on topic tags.