v2.8.3

Changelogs - v2.7.6

✨ New Features & Enhancements

🎬 Media Player & Subtitle Enhancements (PR #75 by @arranoust & PR #81 by @likhithkrishna1103)

• Player Control Toggles – Added customizable visibility toggles for player control buttons in player settings.
• Cache Management – Added dedicated setting to clear image and video cache.
• Hotstar-Style Subtitles – Replaced custom subtitle view with configurable Hotstar-style subtitle rendering and improved subtitle parsing robustness.

📱 iOS Experience & Download Management (PR #84 by @Fares669)

• iOS Live Activity & Background Downloads – Integrated Live Activity for active downloads and iOS background task processing to ensure download tasks continue reliably when the app is backgrounded.
• Detailed Download Progress – Real-time download percentage and transferred file size indicators with improved label positioning.

📑 Episode Selection & Watch History (PR #84 by @Fares669)

• Multi-Episode Selection & Watched States – Easily select multiple episodes to batch-mark as watched or unwatched.
• Offline Watch History Sync – Automatically sync playback of downloaded offline episodes with your episode watch history.
• Improved Action Bar – Replaced episode selection SnackBar with a dedicated bottom action bar and compact buttons.
• Quick Copy Title – Long press on any media title to quickly copy it to clipboard.

⚙️ Poster Customization & Extension Settings (PR #74 by @arranoust & PR #84 by @Fares669)

• Poster Title Positioning – Added customizable title placement options (top, bottom, overlay) for multimedia poster cards.
• Redesigned Extension Settings – New dedicated plugin settings screen supporting conditional and script-defined plugin parameters, dynamic loading, and improved runtime cache handling.

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🐞 Bug Fixes & System Stability

• 🛠️ Fixed SnackBar contrast and theme colors across settings and download screens.
• 🛠️ Fixed extension settings runtime cache handling and plugin provider initialization.