Testflight 4980

• Bugfix: Avoid potential crash in Global Search
• Maintenance: Rework handling of active tab with focus on the library view (#1207)
• Feature: Support language af-za (#1229)
• Maintenance: Coding style changes (#1208)
• Maintenance: Small refactoring in DetailVC (#1211)
• Improvement: Rework playlist progressbar (#1226)
• Maintenance: Remove non needed ivars and properties in iPhone MasterVC (#1217)
• Maintenance: Minor refactoring around unused swipes and NowPlaying in navigation bar (#1213)
• Maintenance: Simplify colorizeImage:withColor: (#1206)
• Translations update from Kodi Weblate (#1233)
• Improvement: Update progress and recording indicators for Live TV and Radio (#1220)
• Improvement: Update app logo (#1214)
• Bugfix: Avoid potential crash in "Play using..." (#1223)
• Improvement: Party Mode icon to use Kodi blue (#1227)
• Bugfix: Properly end "Play using..." action sheet (#1228)
• Bugfix: Kodi icon might not reflect disconnected state on iPhone (#1225)
• Bugfix: Fix crash after scrolling playlist (#1222)
• Bugfix: Use exact Kodi blue color in sRGB color space (#1221)
• Bugfix: Fix Broadcast Details while recording is active (#1219)
• Bugfix: Bring back Queue/Play for addon content (#1218)
• Bugfix: Hide resume option for Kodi 11 or earlier (#1216)
• Translations update from Kodi Weblate (#1224)

1.16

Build 4896

Features:

• Playback to UPnP device via "Play using..."
• Queue or play seasons and source folders
• Support Movie Tags in Movies menu
• Support resume for PVR recordings

Bugfixes:

• Fix non-movable stack view on iPad
• Fix never-ending Global Search animation
• Fix layout of Global Search items when scrolling
• Fix erratic layout changes in iPad fullscreen view
• Set speed via long press NowPlaying seek buttons

Improvements:

• Faster (re-)connect to Kodi server
• Faster start of slideshows and huge playlists
• Smoother scrolling with "rounded corners"
• Reduce flash and memory consumption of image cache
• Up/down/left/right buttons support Kodi skip steps
• Show sections for search results in Global Search
• Only show embedded trailer for youtube links
• Make resume more reliable
• Support Portuguese (Brazil)
• Translation updates for several languages
• Many more small improvements...

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Testflight 4905

• Feature: Support dark/tint App icons for iOS 18 (#1137)

Testflight 4896

This RC will be submitted for AppStore review.

• Feature: support resume for PVR recordings (#1202)
• Improvement: change logic for playlist updates in Party Mode (#1201)
• Bugfix: Fix potential crash when renaming custom buttons (#1209)
• Improvement: use Player.Open to resume (#1200)
• Improvement: better readability of fullscreen fanart close button (#1199)
• Improvement: directly enter the TV Show details from iPad fullscreen (#1198)
• Improvement: do not show toast message while in AppInfoView on iPhone (#1197)
• Bugfix: Fix avoids never-ending activity indicator in movie sets (#1210)
• Bugfix: Avoid crash in colorizeImage:withColor: (#1205)
• Bugfix: keep action sheet's origin after rotation on iPad (#1204)
• Bugfix: Use full width for section header in fullscreen (#1203)

Testflight 4870

• Bugfix: avoid erratic layout change of labels or thumbnails in "recently added" grid view
• Improvement: better readability of labels in "recently added" grid view
• Maintenance: avoid code duplication in PosterCell and RecentlyAddedCell (#1195)
• Bugfix: GlobalSearch by type respects user sort order for section during search (#1196)
• Bugfix: do not have "rounded corners" always on for "recently added" grid view (#1194)

Testflight 4861

• Maintenance: simplified collection view cell layout (potential performance improvement)
• Improvement: simplified "rounded corners" for views (potential performance improvement)
• Bugfix: correct position of activity indicators in grid view
• Bugfix: bring back blue frame on selected grid view items
• Bugfix: avoid erratic layout change of labels or thumbnails in grid view (#1191)
• Maintenance: clean up dealloc (#1193)
• Bugfix: use correct default thumbs for recordings and timers in grid view (#1192)
• Bugfix: iPad stack not movable after leaving fullscreen with toolbar's nowplaying button (#1190)
• Bugfix: avoid visual glitch on iPad when closing stack while bounce animation is active (#1189)

Testflight 4835

• Improvement: Use port defaults if not explicitly set
• Maintenance: Centralized definition of port defaults (#1183)
• Improvement: Rework wakeup of tcpJSONRPC
• Improvement: Avoid loss of connection during wakeup (#1182)
• Improvement: Reduce memory consumption of image cache
• Improvement: Image cache pre-scales to target resolution and aspect ratio
• Improvement: Reduce load by avoiding unwanted image scaling / processing (#1186)
• Improvement: Simplified actionsheet title for playlist items (#1184)
• Improvement: Add timers to RunLoopCommonModes to avoid blockage by dragging a view
• Improvement: Continue toast message, NowPlaying and heartbeat while dragging a view (#1181)
• Bugfix: restore GlobalSearch sort method and sort order (#1185)
• Bugfix: Show menu icon on iPhone server list after launch (#1180)
• Bugfix: Allow to close the AppInfoView (#1178)
• Maintenance: Remove isViewDidLoad, rework iPad corner info and detail view (#1041)
• Translations update from Kodi Weblate (#1187)

Testflight 4798

• Maintenance: Use long type for database IDs (#1173)
• Bugfix: Apply rounded edges to grid view thumb's bottom (#1177)
• Bugfix: iPhone had no top view on successful reconnect after wakeup
• Bugfix: Avoid connection error after device wakeup (#1170)
• Maintenance: Coding style for enums (#1168)
• Improvement: Remove confirmation of power menu actions (#1128)
• Improvement: Allow font scaling for MoreItemsVC (#1172)
• Bugfix: Do not truncate version info on iPad (#1171)
• Translations update from Kodi Weblate (#1174)

Testflight 4768

• Bugfix: Make menu button in server list work again on iPhone (#1169)
• Maintenance: Rework iPad stack controller
• Improvement: Consistent bounce behaviour of iPad stack (#1162)
• Improvement: Show sections with item type for search results in Global Search
• Improvement: Sort search results by ascending label
• Improvement: Scroll back to top when search ended
• Feature: Support searching year via the search field (#1153)
• Feature: Support language pt-br (#1167)
• Translations update from Kodi Weblate (#1166)
• Improvement: Avoid glitches of searchbar animation when leaving iPad fullscreen (#1161)
• Improvement: Use max resolution and correct aspect ratio for iPhone's playlist toggle button (#1165)
• Improvement: Faster connect to Kodi server
• Improvement: More robust against connection loss in load situations on Kodi server (#1163)
• Maintenance: Small coding style changes and internal rework (#1151)
• Maintenance: Rework iPhone menu button implementation (#1150)
• Bugfix: Ensure "No items found" is not truncated (#1154)
• Improvement: Messages shall not be shown on iPhone main menu (#1157)
• Improvement: NowPlaying info prioritizes release year when truncating (#1147)
• Bugfix: Ensure proper background color for section header in case of download error (#1160)
• Bugfix: Fix memory leak when calculating average color (#1158)
• Bugfix: Ensure correct cell height in heightForRowAtIndexPath (#1156)
• Bugfix: Global Search might not show ratings for movies and TV shows (#1152)
• Bugfix: Bring back fullscreen info screen for album/artist (#1149)
• Bugfix: Restore stronger font scaling for custom buttons (#1148)
• Translations update from Kodi Weblate (#1164)

Testflight 4691

• Maintenance: Rework AppDelegate to use appropriate types (#1145)
• Maintenance: activeLayoutView shall use UTableView type (#1138)
• Maintenance: Handle type check inside the time conversion helper (#1139)
• Improvement: Avoid visual glitch in iPad corner info when changing tabs
• Improvement: Correct fading animation for corner info
• Improvement: Strip bb/html code for iPad corner info (#1144)
• Bugfix: Error or no results when selecting an item from filtered list (#1146)
• Bugfix: Keep exit fullscreen button always reachable in iPad fullscreen (#1143)
• Bugfix: Avoid scroll up arrow to be shortly visible on iPad's detail info screen (#1142)
• Bugfix: Present action sheet with UPnP players from correct origin (iPad) (#1141)
• Bugfix: Add missing icon for movie tags (#1140)
• Bugfix: Roating and leaving iPad fanart fullscreen (#1136)
• Bugfix: Show movie duration of 3-digit minutes properly in playlist (#1135)
• Translations update from Kodi Weblate (#1133)