Release v0.18.0 · jellyfin/jellyfin-androidtv

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.

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🌟 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
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Update androidx.fragment by renovate[bot] v1.8.5 #4123, v1.8.4 - autoclosed #4043, v1.8.3 #3962
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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]
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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]
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