v0.4.0-pre-alpha
Pre-release
Pre-release
Aperture v0.4.0-pre-alpha
Grouped Shows and Media Compatibility!
This release brings the planned v0.4 features into an early pre-alpha build, while adding safer handling for media formats that Android TV devices cannot currently play.
TV shows and episodes
- Added grouped TV show presentation with one card per show
- Added season and episode selection
- Added episode-specific thumbnails, titles and synopses
- Added configurable grouped-show and episode-row layouts
- Added episode progress and Continue Watching support
- Improved episode detection and season/episode ordering
Media playback
- Added safer fallback handling for unsupported audio and video formats
- Added clearer playback error reporting
- Temporarily added handling for Dolby Atmos, Dolby Vision and other unsupported formats
- Prevented unsupported tracks from freezing the player
- Improved player and Quick Menu focus handling
- Added local and embedded subtitle support
- OpenSubtitles integration is temporarily disabled while account-based API support is prepared
Home and navigation
- Added home suggestion regeneration
- Improved sidebar focus restoration
- Fixed returning from the sidebar to the page and position that opened it
- Improved grouped-show navigation from Home, Search and TV Shows
- Improved popup, tutorial and player overlay behaviour
Presentation and customisation
- Added dynamic artwork-based theming as a pre-alpha feature
- Added selectable themes
- Added episode-row and grouped-show presentation settings
- Added fallback artwork for media without assets
- Added fade and scale animations when adding media to My List
- Improved subtitle appearance settings
- Improved focus borders, scaling and TV navigation
Optimisation
- Improved library organisation and media grouping
- Improved metadata and asset handling
- Added more robust error handling throughout the app
- Reverted a breaking change affecting compatibility with existing installations
Known issues
- Unsupported media: Some audio and video formats may still be unavailable on particular Android TV devices. Further decoder support is planned.
- Currently, Dolby Atmos E-AC-3 audio is not supported and no audio plays by default on videos with this audio codec.
- Current episode detection: Continue Watching chooses the current episode, but broader current-episode detection throughout the app is still being worked on
- OpenSubtitles: Temporarily disabled while account login and the newer OpenSubtitles API are integrated
- Dynamic Theming: Still a pre-alpha feature under testing and may not update in every navigation state. More coming soon
- Emulator playback: Some emulators may experience crashes or green-screen issues when attempting playback.
- Refresh Assets uses the same icon as the title changer, which may confuse people.
- Title Changer: its UI is currently slightly broken and while it does work, navigating it is unclear.
This is a PRE-ALPHA release.
Aperture is actively being developed and may contain bugs, incomplete features and device-specific playback issues. Please report anything unexpected, especially playback failures and navigation problems. This version is made for people that want to test new features and fixes.
Note
Please perform a full cache clear and rescan if you experience unexpected behaviour after updating before submitting an issue.
Support will only be provided for app-release.apk. It might not be given for users of the unoptimised app-debug.apk right now.