This update fixes some more issues reported after the 0.18.1 release.

💥 Crash fixes

• Fix ItemRowAdapterHelper.refreshItem using wrong thread when invoking callback #4275, by @nielsvanvelzen

🔧 Bugfixes

• Always call notifyInteraction on navigation #4271, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Make playbackController reference optional in ReportingHelper #4276, by @nielsvanvelzen

Contributors

• @nielsvanvelzen

This update fixes all crashes reported since the 0.18.0 release.

If you appreciate my work, you can show your support with a donation trough GitHub sponsors. Your support helps me continue improving and growing the app. Thank you!

💥 Crash fixes

• Fix crash when restoring DestinationFragmentView state #4268, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix crash when viewing audio now playing while using Emerald theme #4269, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix crash when trying to report playback progress when there is no current stream #4270, by @nielsvanvelzen

📈 Dependency updates

• Update dependency com.android.tools.build:gradle to v8.7.3 #4256, by renovate[bot]
• Update github/codeql-action action to v3.27.6 #4259, by renovate[bot]

Contributors

• @nielsvanvelzen

Exciting features like lyrics and media segments are now available, along with significant improvements to subtitles and more in version 0.18 of the Jellyfin for Android TV app. Read the blog post to learn about the changes in this release, or read the changelog below.

If you appreciate my work, you can show your support with a donation trough GitHub sponsors. Your support helps me continue improving and growing the app. Thank you!

🌟 Highlights

• Remove custom subtitle renderer #3825, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Implement My media (small) home section #4011, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Implement media segments #4052, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Rewrite all subtitle behavior #4094, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Implement lyrics #4107, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Add experimental Trickplay implementation #4172, by @nielsvanvelzen

🏗️ Enhancements

• Upgrade ConnectHelpAlertFragment to Jetpack Compose #3596, by @pascalwei
• Add option to customize seek time #3794, by @kabel2
• Add developer preference to prefer FFmpeg for audio decoding #3818, by @rickysixx
• Support float preferences #3824, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Rewrite media queuing #3833, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Set seek parameter for D-Pad to 10 seconds #3928, by @ericleb010
• Add resolution codec check #3953, by @MichaelRUSF
• Avoid baking subtitles when transcoding #3980, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Increase amount of home sections from 7 to 10 #4012, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Add preference for default zoom mode #4020, by @JagerSprinkles
• Add preference to delay start of video #4025, by @JagerSprinkles
• Add flow support for elements #4031, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Rewrite NowPlayingView in compose #4033, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Initial Jellyfin 10.10 support #4040, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Don't skip media segments shorter than 1 second #4064, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Add "ask to skip" media segment action #4068, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Use "Ask to skip" by default for intros and outros #4111, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Hide video player controls by default #4119, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Consider artist images before album artist images #4142, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Consider artist names before album artist names #4143, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Add additional information to PlaybackStartInfo #4147, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Use percentage seekbar for subtitle text size #4175, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Upgrade to Coil 3 #4190, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Unset playing item once the playback queue ends #4221, by @nielsvanvelzen

💥 Crash fixes

• Fix player crashing when playback failed #4150, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Catch errors when reporting playback state #4171, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix ImageProvider always throwing #4195, by @nielsvanvelzen

🔧 Bugfixes

• Fix RewriteMediaManager emitting onQueueStatusChanged with a queue when there is no audio items available #3839, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix queue not advancing #4030, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix VLC marked as watched #4032, by @MichaelRUSF
• Fix Detekt max line length not matching Editorconfig #4058, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix skipping to next episode #4072, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix PlaybackController not always disabling default track #4098, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Automatically disable subtitles when baking fails #4112, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix adding music to existing queue #4117, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Sync custom controls with built-in controls in leanback overlay #4118, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix video restarting immediately when baking subtitles #4122, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix some issues with lyrics #4134, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix getSubtitleDeliveryMethod in StreamInfo always returning "Encoding" #4148, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix audio track selection when baking subtitles #4154, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix exo track id parsing for format change. #4164, by @reacocard
• Fix position on playback stop reporting when skipping to playback end #4167, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix sorting TV shows by last played #4168, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Catch errors when loading MediaSessionService artwork #4170, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix skipping to end of video reports wrong end time #4189, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix subtitle menu not always showing "None" as first item #4196, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix skipping to end of video reports wrong end time #4197, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Use relative index matching for subtitle selection #4201, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Never load PGS externally #4202, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix player UI not hiding automatically #4203, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Really never load PGS externally #4206, by @MichaelRUSF
• Refactor subtitle profiles to be more readable #4210, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix background of album in now playing screen when lyrics are displaying #4211, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix audio now playing screen always showing "1 of x" instead of the actual queue position #4217, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Specify fields in resumePlayback() API request #4248, by @nielsvanvelzen

🔃 Refactoring

• Fix typos #3811, by @starsep
• Use device profile builder in jellyfinPlugin #3893, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Remove DeviceUtils #4071, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Update package for Koin viewModel import #4082, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Rewrite usages of QueueEntry in UI #4110, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Rewrite reporting helper with SDK #4115, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Remove runBlocking usage in HomeRowsFragment #4169, by @nielsvanvelzen

💡 Everything else

• Update dependency org.jellyfin.sdk:jellyfin-core to v1.6.3 #4228, by @nielsvanvelzen

📈 Dependency updates

• Update actions/setup-java action by renovate[bot] v4.5.0 #4105, v4.3.0 #3979, v4.2.2 #3832
• Update Kotlin by renovate[bot] v2.0.21 #4066, v1.9.0 - autoclosed #3989, v2.0.10 #3843
• Update gradle/actions action by renovate[bot] v4.2.1 #4227, v4.0.1 #3938, v4 #3857
• Update com.android.tools.build:gradle by renovate[bot] v8.7.2 #4135, v8.7.1 #4042, v8.6.1 #3998, v8.6.0 #3948, v8.5.2 #3866
• Update gradle by renovate[bot] v8.11.1 #4236, v8.11 #4194, v8.10.2 #4017, v8.10.1 - autoclosed #3976, v8.10 #3897
• Update github/codeql-action action by renovate[bot] v3.27.5 #4237, v3.27.2 #4200, v3.27.1 #4184, v3.26.13 #4075, v3.26.8 #4008, v3.26.5 #3927, v3.26.4 #3920, v3.26.3 #3912
• Update aboutlibraries to v11.2.3 #3925, by renovate[bot]
• Update com.android.tools:desugar_jdk_libs by renovate[bot] v2.1.3 #4181, v2.1.2 #3960, v2.1.1 #3944, v2.1.0 #3935
• Update org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-serialization-json by renovate[bot] v1.7.3 #4009, v1.7.2 #3945
• Update androidx.fragment by renovate[bot] v1.8.5 #4123, v1.8.4 - autoclosed #4043, v1.8.3 #3962
• Update androidx.lifecycle by renovate[bot] v2.8.7 #4124, v2.8.6 #4001, v2.8.5 #3963
• Update androidx.activity:activity by renovate[bot] v1.9.3 #4083, v1.9.2 #3964
• Update androidx.compose.foundation:foundation by renovate[bot] v1.7.5 #4125, v1.7.4 #4084, v1.7.3 #4044, v1.7.2 #4002, v1.7.1 #3982, v1.7.0 #3965
• Update androidx.compose.ui:ui-tooling by renovate[bot] v1.7.5 #4126, v1.7.4 #4087, v1.7.3 #4045, v1.7.2 - autoclosed #4003, v1.7.1 #3983, v1.7.0 #3966
• Update dependency io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt to v1.23.7 #3974, by renovate[bot]
• Update acra by renovate[bot] v5.12.0 #4153, v5.11.4 #3990
• Update koin to v4 (major) #3996, by renovate[bot]
• Update dependency androidx.startup:startup-runtime to v1.2.0 #4004, by renovate[bot]
• Update dependency ubuntu to v24 #4024, by renovate[bot]
• Update actions/upload-artifact action to v4.4.3 #4061, by renovate[bot]
• Update dependency io.mockk:mockk to v1.13.13 #4063, by renovate[bot]
• Update org.jellyfin.sdk:jellyfin-core by renovate[bot] v1.6.2 #4222, v1.6.1 #4152, v1.6.0 #4108
• Update dependency androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout to v2.2.0 #4127, by renovate[bot]
• Update dependency io.coil-kt.coil3:coil-gif to v3.0.3 #4215, by renovate[bot]
• Update appleboy/ssh-action action to v1.2.0 #4223, by renovate[bot]
• Update coil to v3.0.4 #4247, by renovate[bot]
• chore(deps): update ci dependencies #3814, by renovate[bot]
• Update CI dependencies #3847, by renovate[bot]
• Update CI dependencies #3947, by renovate[bot]
• Update CI dependencies #3987, by renovate[bot]
• Update CI dependencies #4019, by renovate[bot]
• Update CI dependencies #4036, by renovate[bot]
• Update CI dependencies #4102, by renovate[bot]
• Update CI dependencies #4204, by renovate[bot]

Contributors

• @nielsvanvelzen
• @MichaelRUSF
• @JagerSprinkles
• @pascalwei
• @kabel2
• @starsep
• @rickysixx
• @ericleb010
• @reacocard

Version 0.18 is the upcoming release of Jellyfin for Android TV. Exciting features like lyrics, trickplay and media segments are now available, together with significant improvements to subtitles and more. Jellyfin 10.10.0 or newer is required.

If you appreciate my work, you can show your support with a donation trough GitHub sponsors. Your support helps me continue improving and growing the app. Thank you 👐!

🐛 Beta information

Beta versions are not guaranteed to work as expected. We encourage users to create detailed bug reports if any problems arise. Read our blog post for more information about our Android beta programs.

🏗️ Enhancements

• Unset playing item once the playback queue ends #4221, by @nielsvanvelzen

🔧 Bugfixes

• Really never load PGS externally #4206, by @MichaelRUSF
• Refactor subtitle profiles to be more readable #4210, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix background of album in now playing screen when lyrics are displaying #4211, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix audio now playing screen always showing "1 of x" instead of the actual queue position #4217, by @nielsvanvelzen

💡 Everything else

• Update dependency org.jellyfin.sdk:jellyfin-core to v1.6.3 #4228, by @nielsvanvelzen

📈 Dependency updates

• Update dependency io.coil-kt.coil3:coil-gif to v3.0.3 #4215, by renovate[bot]
• Update dependency org.jellyfin.sdk:jellyfin-core to v1.6.2 #4222, by renovate[bot]
• Update appleboy/ssh-action action to v1.2.0 #4223, by renovate[bot]
• Update gradle/actions action to v4.2.1 #4227, by renovate[bot]
• Update CI dependencies #4204, by renovate[bot]

Contributors

• @nielsvanvelzen
• @MichaelRUSF

Version 0.18 is the upcoming release of Jellyfin for Android TV. Exciting features like lyrics, trickplay and media segments are now available, together with significant improvements to subtitles and more. Jellyfin 10.10.0 or newer is required.

If you appreciate my work, you can show your support with a donation trough GitHub sponsors. Your support helps me continue improving and growing the app. Thank you!

🐛 Beta information

Beta versions are not guaranteed to work as expected. We encourage users to create detailed bug reports if any problems arise. Read our blog post for more information about our Android beta programs.

🏗️ Enhancements

• Add option to customize seek time #3794, by @kabel2
• Use percentage seekbar for subtitle text size #4175, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Upgrade to Coil 3 #4190, by @nielsvanvelzen

💥 Crash fixes

• Fix ImageProvider always throwing #4195, by @nielsvanvelzen

🔧 Bugfixes

• Fix skipping to end of video reports wrong end time #4189, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix subtitle menu not always showing "None" as first item #4196, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix skipping to end of video reports wrong end time #4197, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Use relative index matching for subtitle selection #4201, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Never load PGS externally #4202, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix player UI not hiding automatically #4203, by @nielsvanvelzen

📈 Dependency updates

• Update dependency com.android.tools:desugar_jdk_libs to v2.1.3 #4181, by renovate[bot]
• Update github/codeql-action action by renovate[bot] v3.27.2 #4200, v3.27.1 #4184
• Update dependency gradle to v8.11 #4194, by renovate[bot]

Contributors

• @nielsvanvelzen
• @kabel2

Version 0.18 is the upcoming release of Jellyfin for Android TV. Exciting features like lyrics, trickplay and media segments are now available, together with significant improvements to subtitles and more. Jellyfin 10.10.0 or newer is required.

If you appreciate my work, you can show your support with a donation trough GitHub sponsors. Your support helps me continue improving and growing the app. Thank you!

🐛 Beta information

Beta versions are not guaranteed to work as expected. We encourage users to create detailed bug reports if any problems arise. Read our blog post for more information about our Android beta programs.

🌟 Highlights

• Add experimental TrickPlay implementation #4172, by @nielsvanvelzen

💥 Crash fixes

• Fix player crashing when playback failed #4150, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Catch errors when reporting playback state #4171, by @nielsvanvelzen

🔧 Bugfixes

• Fix audio track selection when baking subtitles #4154, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix exo track id parsing for format change. #4164, by @reacocard
• Fix position on playback stop reporting when skipping to playback end #4167, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix sorting TV shows by last played #4168, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Catch errors when loading MediaSessionService artwork #4170, by @nielsvanvelzen

🔃 Refactoring

• Remove runBlocking usage in HomeRowsFragment #4169, by @nielsvanvelzen

📈 Dependency updates

• Update dependency org.jellyfin.sdk:jellyfin-core to v1.6.1 #4152, by renovate[bot]
• Update acra to v5.12.0 #4153, by renovate[bot]

Contributors

• @nielsvanvelzen
• @reacocard

Version 0.18 is the upcoming release of Jellyfin for Android TV. Exciting features like lyrics and media segments are now available, together with significant improvements to subtitles and more changes listed in the complete changelog below. Jellyfin 10.10.0 or newer is required.

This first beta release will be available on the Google Play beta track after a short delay of about a week.

If you appreciate my work, you can show your support with a donation trough GitHub sponsors. Your support helps me continue improving and growing the app. Thank you!

🐛 Beta information

Beta versions are not guaranteed to work as expected. We encourage users to create detailed bug reports if any problems arise. Read our blog post for more information about our Android beta programs.

🌟 Highlights

• Remove custom subtitle renderer #3825, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Implement My media (small) home section #4011, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Implement media segments #4052, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Rewrite all subtitle behavior #4094, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Implement lyrics #4107, by @nielsvanvelzen

🏗️ Enhancements

• Upgrade ConnectHelpAlertFragment to Jetpack Compose #3596, by @pascalwei
• Add developer preference to prefer FFmpeg for audio decoding #3818, by @rickysixx
• Support float preferences #3824, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Rewrite media queuing #3833, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Set seek parameter for D-Pad to 10 seconds #3928, by @ericleb010
• Add resolution codec check #3953, by @MichaelRUSF
• Avoid baking subtitles when transcoding #3980, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Increase amount of home sections from 7 to 10 #4012, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Add preference for default zoom mode #4020, by @JagerSprinkles
• Add preference to delay start of video #4025, by @JagerSprinkles
• Add flow support for elements #4031, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Rewrite NowPlayingView in compose #4033, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Initial Jellyfin 10.10 support #4040, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Don't skip media segments shorter than 1 second #4064, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Add "ask to skip" media segment action #4068, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Use "Ask to skip" by default for intros and outros #4111, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Hide video player controls by default #4119, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Consider artist images before album artist images #4142, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Consider artist names before album artist names #4143, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Add additional information to PlaybackStartInfo #4147, by @nielsvanvelzen

🔧 Bugfixes

• Fix RewriteMediaManager emitting onQueueStatusChanged with a queue when there is no audio items available #3839, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix queue not advancing #4030, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix VLC marked as watched #4032, by @MichaelRUSF
• Fix Detekt max line length not matching Editorconfig #4058, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix skipping to next episode #4072, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix PlaybackController not always disabling default track #4098, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Automatically disable subtitles when baking fails #4112, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix adding music to existing queue #4117, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Sync custom controls with built-in controls in leanback overlay #4118, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix video restarting immediately when baking subtitles #4122, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix some issues with lyrics #4134, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Fix getSubtitleDeliveryMethod in StreamInfo always returning "Encoding" #4148, by @nielsvanvelzen

🔃 Refactoring

• Fix typos #3811, by @starsep
• Use device profile builder in jellyfinPlugin #3893, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Remove DeviceUtils #4071, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Update package for Koin viewModel import #4082, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Rewrite usages of QueueEntry in UI #4110, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Rewrite reporting helper with SDK #4115, by @nielsvanvelzen

📈 Dependency updates

• Update actions/setup-java action by renovate[bot] v4.5.0 #4105, v4.3.0 #3979, v4.2.2 #3832
• Update Kotlin by renovate[bot] v2.0.21 #4066, v1.9.0 - autoclosed #3989, v2.0.10 #3843
• Update gradle/actions action by renovate[bot] v4.0.1 #3938, v4 #3857
• Update com.android.tools.build:gradle by renovate[bot] v8.7.2 #4135, v8.7.1 #4042, v8.6.1 #3998, v8.6.0 #3948, v8.5.2 #3866
• Update gradle by renovate[bot] v8.10.2 #4017, v8.10.1 - autoclosed #3976, v8.10 #3897
• Update github/codeql-action action by renovate[bot] v3.26.13 #4075, v3.26.8 #4008, v3.26.5 #3927, v3.26.4 #3920, v3.26.3 #3912
• Update aboutlibraries to v11.2.3 #3925, by renovate[bot]
• Update com.android.tools:desugar_jdk_libs by renovate[bot] v2.1.2 #3960, v2.1.1 #3944, v2.1.0 #3935
• Update org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-serialization-json by renovate[bot] v1.7.3 #4009, v1.7.2 #3945
• Update androidx.fragment by renovate[bot] v1.8.5 #4123, v1.8.4 - autoclosed #4043, v1.8.3 #3962
• Update androidx.lifecycle by renovate[bot] v2.8.7 #4124, v2.8.6 #4001, v2.8.5 #3963
• Update androidx.activity:activity by renovate[bot] v1.9.3 #4083, v1.9.2 #3964
• Update androidx.compose.foundation:foundation by renovate[bot] v1.7.5 #4125, v1.7.4 #4084, v1.7.3 #4044, v1.7.2 #4002, v1.7.1 #3982, v1.7.0 #3965
• Update androidx.compose.ui:ui-tooling by renovate[bot] v1.7.5 #4126, v1.7.4 #4087, v1.7.3 #4045, v1.7.2 - autoclosed #4003, v1.7.1 #3983, v1.7.0 #3966
• Update dependency io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt to v1.23.7 #3974, by renovate[bot]
• Update acra to v5.11.4 #3990, by renovate[bot]
• Update koin to v4 (major) #3996, by renovate[bot]
• Update dependency androidx.startup:startup-runtime to v1.2.0 #4004, by renovate[bot]
• Update dependency ubuntu to v24 #4024, by renovate[bot]
• Update actions/upload-artifact action to v4.4.3 #4061, by renovate[bot]
• Update dependency io.mockk:mockk to v1.13.13 #4063, by renovate[bot]
• Update dependency org.jellyfin.sdk:jellyfin-core to v1.6.0 #4108, by renovate[bot]
• Update dependency androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout to v2.2.0 #4127, by renovate[bot]
• chore(deps): update ci dependencies #3814, by renovate[bot]
• Update CI dependencies #3847, by renovate[bot]
• Update CI dependencies #3947, by renovate[bot]
• Update CI dependencies #3987, by renovate[bot]
• Update CI dependencies #4019, by renovate[bot]
• Update CI dependencies #4036, by renovate[bot]
• Update CI dependencies #4102, by renovate[bot]

Contributors

• @nielsvanvelzen
• @MichaelRUSF
• @JagerSprinkles
• @pascalwei
• @starsep
• @rickysixx
• @ericleb010

🏗️ Enhancements

• Change upcomingMinimumServerVersion to 10.10.0 to warn about upcoming 10.10 requirement #4041, by @nielsvanvelzen

🔧 Bugfixes

• Add missing audioCodec to music transcode #4136, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Don't close player with invalid state in onCreate #4138, by @nielsvanvelzen

🔃 Refactoring

• Use Java 21 in jvm toolchain #4080, by @nielsvanvelzen

Contributors

• @nielsvanvelzen

This is a special release based on v0.17.8 to inform our beta users about an upcoming requirement for Jellyfin 10.10.0. It will be published on the Google Play beta channel only.

The first beta for version 0.18, which will introduce the Jellyfin 10.10.0 requirement, is expected to launch in about two to four weeks from now.

🐟 Changelog

• Change upcomingMinimumServerVersion to 10.10.0 to warn about upcoming 10.10 requirement #4041, by @nielsvanvelzen

Contributors

• @nielsvanvelzen

🔧 Bugfixes

• Use parcelable array list in DestinationFragmentView saved state #4081, by @nielsvanvelzen
• (0.17.z) Fix playing subsequent episode not working #4090, by @nielsvanvelzen

Contributors

• @nielsvanvelzen

🔧 Bugfixes

• Fix video player not closing when fragment is stopped #4057, by @nielsvanvelzen
• Restore forced aspect ratio for poster types on video items #4065, by @nielsvanvelzen

Contributors

• @nielsvanvelzen

🏗️ Enhancements

• Change upcomingMinimumServerVersion to 10.9.11 to encourage updating #4023, by @nielsvanvelzen

💥 Crash fixes

• Fix back press callback in CustomPlaybackOverlayFragment #3997, by @nielsvanvelzen

🔧 Bugfixes

• Fix aspect ratio specials #4015, by @Bond-009
• Fix incorrectly navigating on resume #4028, by @nielsvanvelzen

Contributors

• @nielsvanvelzen
• @Bond-009