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Documentation/Player/Release Notes/Android / AndroidTV

Player Android / AndroidTV Releases

Latest Releases

Date

Version

Stable

3/20/2023

3.35.0

Fixed

  • Window color behind subtitle cue sometimes being black when it should be unset when using SubtitleView
  • Subtitles sometimes not being correctly centered when using the SubtitleView
  • Buffer level always returns zero after some time for HLS live streams

Stable

3/13/2023

3.34.0

Added

  • TweaksConfig.enableExoPlayerLogging that specifies whether ExoPlayer logs shall be printed to the logcat console

Stable

3/6/2023

3.33.1

Fixed

  • Player triggering VAST complete tracking event when being destroyed while playing an ad
  • Player triggering VAST complete tracking event when skippable ad is skipped
  • Player not continuing main content playback when a VAST ad is discarded by either connecting to a cast-compatible device or changing the AdViewGroup during ad playback

Stable

2/27/2023

3.33.0

Added

  • OfflineWarningCode.DrmGeneral which is emitted in a OfflineEvent.Warning when a general warning occurred for DRM handling

Fixed

  • Memory leak when using the BitmovinCastManager and not updating the context on every activity switch

Stable

2/20/2023

3.32.0

Added

  • PlayerWarningCode.RemotePlaybackFailed which is emitted when playback on a connected cast-compatible device produces an error
  • PlayerWarningCode.AdDiscarded which is emitted when an ad is discarded by the player

Fixed

  • Potential memory leak when destroying the player before an already loaded ad is played back
  • Memory leak when playing an ad break of a VMAP ad and destroying the player before all remaining ad breaks have been reach

Stable

2/13/2023

3.31.0

Added

  • PlayerWarningCode.FeatureContextuallyUnsupported which is emitted when a feature on the Player is not supported in the current context

Fixed

  • Some errors not being propagated during Ad playback
  • Casting DRM protected content without providing SourceConfig.httpHeaders does not start the video on the connected cast-compatible device

Stable

2/7/2023

3.30.0

Added

  • PlayerWarningCode.IncorrectApiUsage which is emitted when a certain API usage on the Player is not correct and will have no effect

Changed

  • Default Bitmovin Web UI version to 3.42.0

Fixed

  • Detatching the renderer surface times out when destroying the player while metadata is being parsed
  • Type safety (nullability) in AudioLabeler
  • Type safety (nullability) in AudioQualityLabeler
  • Type safety (nullability) in VideoQualityLabeler
  • Type safety (nullability) in SubtitleLabeler
  • Type safety (nullability) in AdsManagerAvailableCallback
  • Type safety (nullability) in BeforeInitializationCallback
  • Type safety (nullability) in PrepareLicenseCallback
  • Type safety (nullability) in PrepareMessageCallback
  • Type safety (nullability) in ForecedSubtitleCallback
  • Type safety (nullability) in VideoAdaptation
  • Type safety (nullability) in PreprocessHttpRequestCallback
  • Type safety (nullability) in BitmovinSurfaceListener
  • Type safety (nullability) in VrRenderer

Stable

1/30/2023

3.29.0

Added

  • RemoteControlConfig.onConfigureMediaInfo which can be used to configure Google Cast MediaInfo objects before they are loaded on the cast enabled device

Stable

1/23/2023

3.28.0

Added

  • PlayerWarningCode.PlaylistManipulationFailed which is emitted in a PlayerEvent.Warning when it was not possible to manipulate the playlist
  • PlayerWarningCode.AdvertisingGeneral which is emitted in a PlayerEvent.Warning when a general warning occurred in the advertising feature
  • PlayerWarningCode.AdBreakFetchingFailed which is emitted in a PlayerEvent.Warning when the current ad break will not play any ads as no ads could be fetched
  • PlayerWarningCode.CastSourceMappingFailed which is emitted in a PlayerEvent.Warning when the playlist state on the cast enabled device is inconsistent to the local playlist state
  • OfflineWarningCode.DrmLicenseReleaseFailed which is emitted in a OfflineEvent.Warning when the DRM license failed to release
  • SourceWarningCode.IncorrectApiUsage which is emitted when a certain API usage is not correct and will have no effect
  • SourceWarningCode.FeatureContextuallyUnsupported which is emitted when a feature is not supported in the current context

Fixed

  • ForegroundServiceStartNotAllowedException thrown on Android 12 when download was paused and resumed in the background due to unmet requirements
  • Downloaded asset sometimes being corrupted when download was paused and resumed due to unmet requirements
  • Crash when playing Progressive Ads using Bitmovin Web UI

Stable

1/17/2023

3.27.0

Changed

  • Updated Google Cast SDK to 21.2.0
  • Updated IMA SDK dependency to version 3.29.0. This may require an update of the dependent Google Ads Play Services
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