[0.1.5] - 2024-01-28
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New
- Status indicators when Dispatch is working
- Basic gamepad support
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Improved:
- Improvements have been made to the onboarding experience
- Improvements have been made to the playback alert service, which was causing a memory leak and thus intermittent performance issues.
- Blur effect when scrubbing the movie and tv library is now more performant and looks better.
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Fixed
- Fixes an issue causing the wallpaper to stop working when the context menu is open.
- Fixes an issue causing TV Seasons and TV Episodes to not download artwork for the home screen.
- Fixes an issue stopping Home Services from working until the app is restarted.
Changelog Details:
Improvements have been made to the onboarding experience
During onboarding, Dispatch used to wait until a complete library download was complete before moving to the home screen. This has been changed: the library will continue to download in the background while the user is navigated to the home screen without delay.
New UI elements have been added to indicate to the user that the library is still loading:
Also, after a first library download, there is a somewhat lengthy (~30 minutes) process within which Dispatch must download metadata and artwork for the home screen UI. App performance is expected to be degraded during this process, but it is a one time event.
New UI elements have been added to indicate to the user that metadata is still being generated
Basic gamepad support
This will be expanded upon in the future to hopefully support all game pads. For now, I have only tested it with the Stadia controller. If you have a gamepad and have issues navigating the UI, please create an issue for it here.
Improvements have been made to the playback alert service, which was causing a memory leak and thus intermittent performance issues
Dispatch opens a web socket with your Plex servers to listen to playback events so that it can update the watch next / on deck rows, as well as media playback positions. There was an issue with this code that was previously causing a memory leak, and thus intermittent performance issues. It's possible this issue is still not solved for every scenario, however, so if you notice the app or your device sometimes becoming very laggy, please create an issue for it here.
Search Preview
One of the next major features being worked on is Search. The design is still being finalized, but here's a quick preview!
