Player Android / AndroidTV Release 3.8.0

Stable

10/12/2021

3.8.0

PlayerNotificationManager.createWithNotificationChannel overload that takes a CustomActionReceiver
Source.getThumbnail to expose thumbnails for inactive sources in a player
AdItem.preloadOffset to specify the amount of seconds the ad manifest should be loaded in advance compared to when the ad break is scheduled for playback
Support for background playback of IMA ads

The offset with which the manifest for ads was preloaded now defaults to 0 seconds instead of 10. With the introduction of AdItem.preloadOffset, this can now be configured per ad break.

Bitmovin Web UI using an invalid duration when joining an existing cast session
Bitmovin Web UI using an invalid duration after pre-roll ad was played when autoplay is enabled
Bitmovin Web UI occasionally not reflecting the correct current time when starting a cast session while playback is paused
Cast receiver incorrectly displaying live source with VoD UI
Player.duration returning 0.0 instead of -1.0 if it is unknown during casting
Player crashing if it gets detached from the PlayerView while ads are scheduled

Due to a limitation in the Google Cast SDK, casting does not work when targetSdkVersion is set to 31. This is tracked in https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/195588434