Nebula

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Added a “Restore Purchases” button to link a previously purchased Google Play subscription to your Nebula account. This may resolve issues where the app wrongly prompts for a subscription when you already have one.

Bug Fixes & Improvements
• Fixed an issue that could result in a crash on launch for users within certain timezones in Greenland and Mexico.
• Hero carousel now cycles infinitely.

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Welcome Home.
The main view–now called Home–has been redesigned to make it even easier to discover content you’ll enjoy. In addition to the featured content you’re used to seeing, Home is now where you can find additional pages of curated content grouped by category or interest. We’ll continue to add more Home pages over time, so let us know what you’re interested in seeing more of.
Other items in this release:
• Settings has a new icon
• Library has a new icon
• Browse has been renamed Explore

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Bug fixes
• Starting videos from links or notifications should now play properly.
• Minor app color updates to improve readability.

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New
- Improved video quality management when streaming with an unstable connection.

Previous release
New
- Expanded Nebula deep linking functionality to include podcasts, episodes, classes, and more.
Fixes
- Made an effort to address a bug that might trigger spontaneous background playback. If you continue to see this issue after updating please let us know: help@nebula.tv.
- Opening a notification or link while a video is playing in PiP should no longer freeze the app.

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New
- Expanded Nebula deep linking functionality to include podcasts, episodes, classes, and more.
Fixes
- Made an effort to address a bug that might trigger spontaneous background playback. If you continue to see this issue after updating please let us know: help@nebula.tv.
- Opening a notification or link while a video is playing in PiP should no longer freeze the app.
- Fixed an alphabetical sorting bug with uncapitalized channel names in Browse.

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This release focused on bugs fixes and improvements:
• Refined video buffer thresholds to better match video quality with available bandwidths.
• Improved authentication checks to minimize playback issues from occurring when restoring the app from background.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when unavailable videos were displayed within Media Controls.
• Dropped support for OS versions less than 8.0. If updating is not possible for your device, you can still watch Nebula from your browser.

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We have upgraded our video player to Media3. This upgrade should improve background playback and make connecting to Bluetooth devices easier.

Bug Fixes
- Fixed issue where backgrounding the app on versions of Android 9 and below could cause a crash.
- Fixed an issue where a second PiP player could appear behind the other player for devices on Android 10.

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Improvements
• We’ve improved the contextual awareness of Up Next to help make recommendations more relevant.
• When you finish watching a video, a recommendation for what to watch next will now be shown.
• Removed Watch History from app settings (its new home is in Library).
Bug fixes
• Fixed stuttering video playback that sometimes occurred on S23 Ultra and other devices that support WQHD+ screen resolution.
• Long tap action added to items that were missing it.

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Library now consolidates all of your saved, followed, and downloaded content into one space, with individual tabs for Videos, Podcasts, and Classes to keep everything organized.
• Podcast episodes can now be saved for future listening.
• Podcasts now have listen history.
• Downloads and Watch History are now accessible from the Library tab.
Improvements
• Relative timestamps are now more granular for videos less than 24 hours old. Videos older than 24 hours show absolute dates.

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Improved our Categories code for easier future modifications and additions.

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- Corrected a video playback issue that caused a black screen with audio but no video.
- Autoplay behavior has been corrected to be off by default. Autoplay can be turned on my tapping the ∞ button in the video player or adjusted within app settings.
- Certain network conditions, such as in-flight WiFi, could cause users to be signed out and have their downloads deleted. We’ve improved how the app handles network errors and this should no longer happen.

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2.5.14
• Corrected an issue where occasionally a different video than the one selected would be played erroneously.

2.5.13
• Fixed issue with background playback stopping after ~15 minutes
• Improved handling of network issues caused by misconfigured IPv6 environments
• Autoplay has been fixed and can now be turned on and off in the video player
• Bell icons now correctly reflect the current notification state
• Added video player analytics to help diagnose and solve video playback issues

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• Fixed issue with background playback stopping after ~15 minutes
• Improved handling of network issues caused by misconfigured IPv6 environments
• Autoplay has been fixed and can now be turned on and off in the video player
• Bell icons now correctly reflect the current notification state
• Added video player analytics to help diagnose and solve video playback issues
• Other video player tweaks and improvements
• Improved launch startup speed
• Renamed and rearranged a few items in app settings

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The release brings technical improvements to the overall quality of the app.

Improvements
• Watch History is more responsive to watch progress changes
• Watch and listen progress update even when using the app is offline
• Improvements to image loading
• Videos failed to load for some users when video quality had been manually set
• Launching the app from video notification no longer breaks the video player
• Compatibility issue that could cause downloads to not be playable or deletable

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. Inadvertently broke background playback in the last update. That functionality is now restored.
. Added subtitles to classes.
. Removed incorrect pricing from landing screen.
. Fixed bug where a progress indicator displayed over video player.
. Letterboxes on videos were a dark blue. They are now black.
. “Add Classes” banner was not correctly showing for bundle subscribers. This is now fixed.

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Introducing Nebula Classes! Develop real-world skills, discover new passions, and gain valuable insights from your favorite creators.
Bug fixes:
. Fixed search bug showing incorrect search results
. Paused videos no longer keep your device awake
. Made video player scrub bar and miniplayer controls easier to tap
. Added channel avatars back to video rails on Featured view
. Improved support for RTL language on Sign Up, Featured, and Podcast views
. Improved in-app purchase receipt validation

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. Fixed a crash that was occurring in search.

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. Actually fixed the bug where the same videos would repeat in channel lists.
. Improved scroll behavior of rails on Featured view.
. Stopped flickering that could occur on the persistent notification thumbnail when tapping play/pause.

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. You can now sign up and subscribe to Nebula directly from within the app.
. Account management. Update your email address and password from app settings.
. Fixed a bug where background audio would pause a few minutes after the device went to sleep.
. Fixed a bug that caused the list of videos in a channel to repeat the same videos.
. Updated cast control icons to respect light and dark themes.
. A handful of UI tweaks to images and text on the Featured view.

version 2.2.0

. Push notifications. They actually work now. Get notified when your favorite creators post a new video to Nebula.
. Improved the behavior of download progress indicators.
. Added persistent notification controls for background podcast playback.
. Fixed a handful of TalkBack bugs.
. Fixed a few crashes.
. Fixed App Links bug that caused app to launch for all nebula.app URLs.

version 2.1.0

version 2.0.1

. Fixed a number of missing content labels for improved TalkBack support.
. Tweaked search results, so that the search bar is no longer shown on the results view.
. Resolved a bug where the closed caption button did not always show the correct state.

version 2.0.0

[Improvements]
. Remember how the app used to take forever to load? We fixed that. New API. Loads much, MUCH faster than before. Thank you all for being so patient.
. Video player now supports closed captions.
[Bug Fixes]
. Squashed bug where Latest Videos would show repeating videos.
. PIP sometimes broke after device rotation. This should no longer happen.
. Using a VPN could result in the app thinking there was no network connection. This has been fixed.

version 1.1.0

. Nebula Originals and Nebula Plus content are now badged as you browse around your favorite creators, making their exclusive content easier to spot.
. Improved podcast support. You can now browse and listen to podcasts natively within the app.
. A bug existed that caused video thumbnails in lists to repeat or behave inconsistently. This bug has been fixed.
. Nebula Original channels on the Featured tab were being sorted alphabetically. This has been updated to instead sort by most recent video.

version 1.0.12

. Squashed some bugs that could cause videos to start over when starting or stopping casting.
. Some users were still being bombarded by notifications when starting a video. That shouldn’t happen anymore, but let us know if you see it.
. Sometimes the mini player took multiple taps to open. One tap should now do the trick.
. The app can now rotate on tablets which should fix the problem some users experienced where the app would end up in the wrong orientation.

version 1.0.11

. Squashed another bug that could cause the app to crash on launch under certain conditions.