Hi everyone!
With today's update, and many others over the past two months, the launcher has finally reached a level of stability that I'm happy with.
Note as well that the 14-day trial has been reset for all users.
In addition, the trial has moved to a cumulative model, meaning only consecutive days of use are counted. So if you try Dispatch today, and don't feel like it's right for you yet, you can always try it again later and
the trial will continue where you left off.
Summary of issues resolved since the initial release:
- Fixes Dispatch getting stuck in a "Generating Metadata" phase
- Fixes errors when connecting certain Plex accounts
- Fixes errors when syncing with certain Plex libraries
- Fixes errors when using Google login
- Fixes an issue which caused a "Beta Expired" screen to appear and block further use of Dispatch
- Fixes occasional lag occurring while playing or streaming media in other apps
- Fixes crashes for some users while generating metadata or syncing Android TV app recommendations
- Fixes errors when syncing Android TV app recommendations (from apps like Netflix, Apple TV, etc…)
- Fixes wrong ordering of trending media
- Restores the ability to long press the home button to bring up the Google TV Dashboard
- Fixes an issue stopping the image cache from being trimmed, resulting in an unnecessarily large app cache.
- Fixes an issue where app icons stopped displaying
- Fixes an issue where newly installed app would not display until Dispatch was restarted
- Fixes an issue where the input / keyboard was unresponsive while logging in via email + password
- Fixes an issue where the Google TV account picker was inaccessible, stopping users from logging into their YouTube accounts, for example.
- Fixes UI scaling on devices with non-traditional display sizes / densities, such as certain zidoo boxes or projectors.
- Many other more minor issues
Roadmap / What's Next
The following features have been selected for development next:
- User Profiles / Profile Switching
- Multi-Server support for Plex
- Version / Quality selector when opening Plex media
- Support for Android / Google TV notifications, including Now Playing and Casted Media notifications.
- Translate Dispatch into other languages (If you'd like to help translate Dispatch, please leave a comment here)
I will also continue investigations into the possibility of integrating with
Stremio
, as it is by far the most popular feature request.