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Xibo for Android v2 R209 Available

Dan
24 Nov 20

Xibo Signage are pleased to announce Xibo for Android v2 R209. This release works with Xibo CMS version 2.x and has legacy mode for versions 1.4, 1.6, 1.7 and 1.8.

Please note: this release contains significant changes to the way content is played. We strongly advise testing this release on a small subset of devices prior to rolling this out to your entire network. If you experience issues with this release please rollback to v2 R206 and contact us.

We have addressed 7 issues in this release:

Fix an issue with HTTP connections introduced in v2 R208
Fix screenshot without an XMR connection
Improvements to gapless playback
Gapless only available by default from Android 7
Fix gapless playback causing overlapping proof of play records
Use a monospaced font in the CMS connect "use code" method of registering the device
Improve interrupt layout scheduling so that interrupts are more evenly spread

Gapless Playback

Xibo has always done its best to switch between Layouts and Widgets as seamlessly as possible. In the past, device side limitations have prevented a truly seemless switch and often a "black flash" of one or two frames was visible between content.

This release builds on v2 R207 and takes further steps to solve this issue to bring around a truly seamless switch between content.

As a result we are also able to connect together some types of transition - for example two images with "fly in" and "fly out" East will both be on the screen at the same time as one moves in and the other out.

Note: some content, such as embedded web pages, are likely to still show some background as they load. We will continue to improve this in future versions.

Gapless playback with videos requires the device to have multiple video decoders. CMS 2.3.6 has a setting in the Display Profile to turn on/off the use of multiple video decoders.