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