Release Announcements - Android TV beta

Plex Players Player Betas
141

Plex for Android 7.6.0.6822-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • App crashes when switching users.
  • App could crash checking sync state of an item.
  • App could crash on boot.

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142

Plex for Android 7.6.0.6975-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

Internal changes only

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2 Likes
143

Plex for Android 7.6.0.7009-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Changing external subtitles during playback wouldn’t work.

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144

Plex for Android 7.6.0.7042-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Retrying playback from error alert could crash the app.

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145

Plex for Android 7.6.1.7055-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [TV] Stream selection could not work in video player.

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146

Plex for Android 7.6.1.7165-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

Mobile changes only

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147

Plex for Android 7.7.0.7305-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • Animate cast icon.
  • Subtitles on-demand: add regional languages.
  • Give new users the ability to select a preferred server on first run.
  • Add option to reset any customizations made to the home screen.
  • Add on-demand subtitles to the video player.

FIXES:

  • Podcasts: display “Go to show” action in audio player PQ list overflow menu.
  • Existing purchases could not be restored if phone was in Portuguese or Norwegian.
  • Subtitles on-demand: incorrect language can be set after device rotation.
  • Don’t navigate to new playlists after creating them.
  • App could crash navigating to an item.
  • Camera Upload: automatic upload when photos are taken could not work on Oreo+ devices.
  • Live TV: improve weak signal message.
  • [TV] Don’t offer play queue options unless video is in Picture in Picture mode .
  • [TV] Display message when filter result is empty.

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2 Likes
148

Plex for Android 7.7.0.7387-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Media flags were not being displayed.
  • Add missing strings for Quality selection.
  • App could crash when restored from recents.
  • App could crash on startup.
  • [Mobile] Starting a photo slideshow could fail sometimes.

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149

Plex for Android 7.7.0.7549-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [TV] Selecting “Play trailer” when viewing movie info would bring up “Add to playlist” dialog.
  • [TV] The News Recommendation Channel isn’t showing previews and the app is stuck on splash screen after selecting an item.

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150

Plex for Android 7.7.0.7651-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Crash could occur when attempting playback.

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151

Plex for Android 7.7.1.7664-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • ExoPlayer v2: ensure software decoder is used after downloading codec.
  • [TV] App could crash in the video player.

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152

Plex for Android 7.7.2.7700-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Make sure all users can play Web Shows without restriction.

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153

Plex for Android 7.8.0.7814-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • [TV] Include hubs from online sources on home screen.

FIXES:

  • On-demand subtitles: improve error messages and add the ability to retry the request.
  • On-demand subtitles: use the stream’s display title instead of its source.
  • Optimize restoring sources on app start.
  • Not all downloaded content could be accessible from Android Auto.
  • Podcasts: fix issue skipping episodes when casting to Chromecast.
  • ExoPlayer v2: resolve issue resulting in the rendering of fully transparent vobsub subtitles.
  • ExoPlayer v2: resolve crash in VobSub rendering.
  • [Sony Android TV] Fix grey background displayed when playing 21:9 HDR videos.
  • [TV] Make sure the first row of episodes from a preplay are selectable.

BETA:

  • App could crash loading content.

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154

Plex for Android 7.8.0.7824-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • App could crash loading content.

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2 Likes
155

Plex for Android 7.8.0.7848-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

No changes for Android TV in this update.

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156

Plex for Android 7.8.0.7894-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [Sony Android TV] Revert attempted fix for HDR issue. We’ll continue working on the gray bars displayed for HDR content on these devices.
  • [TV] App could crash displaying Plex Pass Feature information page.
  • [TV] App could crash when changing connectivity.

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157

Plex for Android 7.8.0.7955-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [TV] Ensure audio player is stopped completely.

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158

Plex for Android 7.8.0.7983-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [Sony Android TV] Revert attempted fix for HDR issue. We’ll continue working on the gray bars displayed for HDR content on these devices.

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NOTE: APK download links expire once the next major beta has been released.

159

Plex for Android 7.8.0.8024-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

No changes for Android TV in this update.

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160

Plex for Android 7.8.0.8055-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [TV] App could crash when populating the Recommendation Channels items.
  • [TV] Ensure Online Media Sources are available when there is no Plex Server.

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NOTE: APK download links expire once the next major beta has been released.