syncplay-mobile

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• Audio files can now be played. (#168, requested by @gili-gili)
• Audio files show a visualizer. You can turn it off in the room's player settings.
• The visualizer changes patterns on its own, or you can pick one.
• Fixed the keyboard closing after one letter on Home. (#167, #170, reported by @gili-gili and @rkpsx7, fixed by @mvanhorn)
• Android TV: every control now works with a remote. (#159, contributed by @mukulhase)
• Android TV: the app lists your videos when no file picker is available. (#163, contributed by @mukulhase)
• Invite links are now https links, clickable in any messenger. The page opens the app or links to the stores.
• The room's side panels are merged into one.
• You can now set chat colours, and names in event messages are coloured.
• Long press a GIF to save it or copy its link. Long press a message to copy it.
• Chat messages over the video fade out, and new ones are marked.
• GIF and sticker controls share one row. Sending one clears the search text.
• The shared playlist can be reordered by dragging. After a disconnect, the app offers to restore it.
• Tracks show more detail, and video tracks can be selected.
• mpv on Android now uses libmpvKt, which fixes video track selection.
• iOS: the screen stays on in rooms, including after switching engines.
• iOS VLC: fixed the seek bar freezing and the room jumping backward. (#158, reported by @yvchenko)
• Fixed rapid seeks losing the latest position, and an unfinished seek moving a new file.
• iOS VLC: fixed seeking in Picture-in-Picture, and the resume offer when watching alone.
• Home shows what each engine supports.
• Invalid join links and port numbers are now rejected.
• Screen readers can now reach the join form.
• The ExoPlayer-only APK is now reproducible, so IzzyOnDroid can verify it. (#105, #172, requested by @IzzySoft)

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• The whole app was redrawn. It now has one set of controls, five text sizes, colours from the theme, and frosted panels over the video on devices that support them.
• KitePlayer is a new experimental engine, written for this app on top of FFmpeg. It runs on Android, iOS and desktop.
• KitePlayer supports chapters, external and styled subtitles, https links, and speeds from 0.25x to 4x without a change in pitch.
• KitePlayer seeks to the exact frame in one step. Files with tens of thousands of subtitle lines do not slow it down.
• The engines are now ExoPlayer, mpv and KitePlayer on Android, and AVPlayer, VLCKit and KitePlayer on iOS. VLC on Android and mpv on iOS were removed, and VLCKit is the iOS default.
• Fixed the phantom pause. An engine that stops on its own no longer pauses the whole room. (#148, reported by @wingoku)
• If you load your file after the room has started, you now sync to the room. Before, you stayed paused at the start.
• A file that is still opening no longer pulls the whole room back to the start.
• A phone that comes back from the background now follows the room. Before, it pulled the room back.
• iOS VLC: on a video from a network share, a seek bar drag no longer sends the room back to the start. The seek bar now waits for the real length of the video. (#158, reported by @yvchenko)
• Before playback starts, the room shows that it is waiting for the video and who it is waiting for.
• You can change the app's language in settings, on every platform, without a restart.
• All seven translations are complete: Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Polish, Russian and Chinese.
• Fixed a crash when you opened settings. A text string was defined twice, and the build now checks for duplicates. (#151, reported by @OusamaAsherM)
• YouTube links work again. A YouTube link that a friend adds to the shared playlist also works, with no setup. (#127, requested by @girlmaya)
• SoundCloud, PeerTube, Bandcamp and media.ccc.de links also work, on Android and desktop. iOS supports YouTube links only.
• You can share a room as an invite link, and open an invite link to join a room.
• Subtitle search and download work again. You can pick the subtitle language, and a failed search tells you why. (#155, reported by @SamSammy7998)
• When you watch alone, the app remembers where you stopped in a file and offers to continue from there. (#138, requested by @ZediAlreadyTaken)
• The volume can go above 100 on engines that supp

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• Fixed a malformed server message, such as an empty features list, emptying the user list or starting a reconnect loop. (#152, reported by @NightMachinery)
• Fixed file privacy modes breaking the file check with PC users. Hashed file names now match the PC client.
• Fixed false file mismatch warnings. The check now ignores letter case, compares plain names with hashed ones, and allows up to 2.5 seconds of length difference.
• Fixed a disconnect loop in large rooms. The buffer for incoming messages was too small.
• Server errors such as "Wrong password supplied" now show in the room. Before, the app went into an endless reconnect loop with no message.
• Fixed a crash when the setup of an encrypted connection fails. A bad server certificate now shows a connection error, and the app retries.
• The app now handles server messages strictly in order, like the PC client. This removes small sync errors under load.
• Older servers work again. The app now sends the 1.2.255 compatibility version when it connects, like the PC client.
• Messages with several commands are now handled in full. Before, the app handled only the first command.
• Fixed chat, readiness and playlist messages getting lost when you sent them during a reconnect.
• People who switch rooms now appear in and leave the user list at once. Before, they stayed for up to 15 seconds.
• Operators in managed rooms can now set other people as ready, also across mobile and PC clients. The room then shows "X was set as ready by Y".
• The shared playlist now has the limits of the official server: 250 items and 10,000 characters. The app warns you up front, and the built-in server applies the same limits.
• Fixed the chat removing backslashes from your messages. The chat length limit now comes from the server, not a fixed 149 characters.
• Trusted domains now match the PC client exactly: the exact host, its www version, *. wildcards and path prefixes. Other subdomains are no longer trusted.
• iOS mpv: fixed a video playing by itself right after it loaded. It now waits for the room or for you, like on Android.
• iOS: fixed memory leaks when you leave a room. All three engines now stop their position trackers.
• Android: fixed a native thread leak on every reconnect attempt.
• Fixed a possibl

Synkplay is on the Apple App Store and Google Play.

• iOS: mpv is now available through MPVKit, and it is the new default engine. It is experimental.
• In testing, mpv on iOS is faster than VLC and causes fewer sync problems. VLC does not report its playback position reliably.
• mpv on iOS should be about as stable as on Android, but it has fewer features. For example, it has no Lua support.
• The in-room mpv settings from Android are also on iOS, but some may not work yet. Built-in and external subtitles work.
• mpv on iOS was not tested with network media. Use VLC to play a URL.
• Android mpv: the playback position is now exact to the millisecond. Before, it was rounded to whole seconds, so everyone in the room sped up or slowed down a little almost every second.
• The shared playlist was rewritten on Android and iOS. Files and URLs should now open without problems. The rewrite is experimental and mostly untested, so please report bugs. (#109, reported by @MaxManHH)
• Fixed auto-reconnect stopping after one failed try. The retry interval now has a minimum, so the app cannot retry in a loop with no delay.
• Fixed the app losing its encrypted connection after a reconnect.
• Fixed a phantom duplicate seek, and removed the extra sync code that caused it.
• Fast-forward on desync now applies only to non-operators in managed rooms, like in the PC client. Before, it pushed people in normal rooms forward on any long lag.
• Fixed hashed file names not matching between Synkplay users and Syncplay PC users.
• Android ExoPlayer: fixed choosing an audio track also clearing your saved subtitle choice.
• Android ExoPlayer: fixed a crash from an invalid mix of buffer settings. The app now keeps the values in a valid range.
• Android mpv: fixed wrong or empty track names when a track had no language or title.
• iOS VLC: fixed the position showing zero or an old value during buffering.
• iOS VLC: fixed short false pause events.
• iOS VLC: fixed a stray stop event counting as the end of the file.
• iOS VLC: fixed a seek that stopped position updates for good.
• iOS AVPlayer: fixed buffering counting as playing.
• iOS AVPlayer: fixed the audio and subtitle lists staying empty.
• The audio and subtitle track lists can now scroll.
• Improved how external subtitle files are recognised by their file extension.