1.2.0

Second release of Crucible — a personal Plex client for iOS, built entirely on Arch Linux. Everything since 1.0.0 (the 1.1.0 work is folded in here).

Player

• Skip Intro / Skip Credits driven by Plex chapter markers — seek on direct play, transcode restart on HLS
• Picture-in-Picture with automatic start on backgrounding, plus background audio
• Lock screen & Control Center controls — play/pause, skip ±10s, scrub, and next episode
• Credits-triggered Up Next autoplay and adjustable playback speed
• Direct play for natively-supported codecs, falling back to HLS transcoding

Discovery

• Cast & Crew carousel and More Like This shelf on detail screens
• Handoff & Spotlight deep-linking — hand a title between devices, find recently-viewed media in iOS search
• Automatic best-reachable server connection discovery (prefers local, non-relay, https)
• Fleshed-out Settings: streaming quality, image-cache clearing, source link

Reliability

• Live watched/progress refresh across Home, Library, detail screens, and grids — no more stale badges or progress bars on return
• Mark Watched button and season selection now update correctly
• Grids refetch their full loaded range on return without losing scroll position
• Liquid Glass adoption, transcode-scrub stall fix, and full-screen-gesture dismissal fix
• File-based logger for on-device diagnostics

Built with

• Swift 6 with strict concurrency
• Programmatic UIKit — no Xcode, no storyboards, no macOS
• Cross-compiled from Arch Linux via SwiftPM, deployed over USB via xtool
• Zero external dependencies

1.0.0

Initial release of Crucible — a personal Plex client for iOS, built entirely on Arch Linux.

Highlights

• Plex OAuth sign-in with automatic server discovery
• Home screen with Continue Watching, On Deck, and Recently Added hubs
• Library browsing with poster grid, genre filtering, sort options, and per-library Continue Watching carousels
• Folder browsing for unindexed content with 3-column media grid and quick play buttons
• Show detail with season picker, episode list, and watch progress tracking
• Movie/episode detail with backdrop hero, codec badges, subtitle and audio track selection
• HLS transcoding via Plex universal transcoder for full format compatibility
• Playback reporting via Plex timeline API — watch progress syncs back to server
• Quick play from long-press context menus and poster overlay buttons
• Search across all libraries with type-filtered results
• Watch history with activity timeline
• Tailscale-first networking for secure remote access

Built with

• Swift 6 with strict concurrency
• Programmatic UIKit — no Xcode, no storyboards, no macOS
• Cross-compiled from Arch Linux via SwiftPM
• Deployed to iPhone over USB via xtool
• Zero external dependencies