Emby for Android

- September 17, 2016

Everyone

Media & Video

Offers in-app purchases

( 2,434)

Description

Bringing all of your personal media together into one place has never been easier! Emby unites your personal videos, music, and photos and streams them to your devices.

Get the free, open source Emby Server at http://emby.media (required as part of your Emby install).

• Emby automatically converts your media on-the-fly to play on any device.
• Emby organizes your media into an elegant display with artwork, rich metadata and related content.
• Easily share your media with friends and family.
• Rich parental control and management features allow you to easily control access for your entire family.
• Stream your cloud-synced media (with installed cloud sync providers)
• Watch Live TV and manage your DVR (with installed live tv provider)

This app is free to browse your media collection and cast to other devices. Playback requires either a one-time in-app purchase, or an active Emby Premiere subscription. Other premium features such as sync require an Emby Premiere subscription. Prior to December 2014, this app was owned and sold by another developer. We are doing our best to automatically detect and honor your purchases made during that timeframe. If this does not work for you then please click the Restore Purchase button to open a support ticket with us and we'll resolve the issue immediately.

All content displayed here is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. The videos displayed are available on the Open Movie Project, found at http://www.blender.org/

CHANGELOGS:

2.7.55:

* Add custom bitrate option when syncing videos
* Improve theme song playback
* Rename sync settings to offline
* Improve music offline sync to 1-click
* Add music offline sync quality settings
* Fix folders view

2.7.50:

* Improved data loading performance
* Improved scrolling performance
* Improved sync error handling
* Rework series recording screen
* Add artists to music genre screen
* Add guide paging
* Add sync download notifications

2.7.04:

* Resolve sync failures to external SD card

2.6.03:

* Embedded subtitle fixes
* Updated external player playback

2.3.80:

* Fix Chromecast not playing after connecting
* Add custom video player built with LibVlc
* Support gestures to change brightness and volume during playback
* Easily exit video player with back button
* Replace home screen tabs
* Replace photo view tabs
* Replace channel view tabs
* Add new social sharing feature
* Support hardware menu button to open left nav drawer
* New Next Up layout for mobile

2.3.53:

* Fix Chromecast Nvidia Shield detection
* Redesign headers and tabs on now playing screen
* Added thumbs up/down, favorite to now playing screen
* Replace all media position and volume sliders
* Update video player icons
* Replace http stack with Volley & OkHttp
* Restore logging to Emby directory

2.3.36:

* Replace left navigation drawer
* Display playback position in Lollipop notification
* Fix lock screen + notification bar audio control for android versions < 5.0
* Implement audio ducking
* Improve landscape remote controls
* Fix error when switching subtitles
* Add in-app Emby Connect signup

All content displayed here is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. The videos displayed are available on the Open Movie Project, found at http://www.blender.org/

Reviews

3.8

2,434 total

5 1,218

4 482

3 184

2 164

1 386

James Owen

I paid for DVR functionality. Being able to schedule recordings in live TV and now through an update you have taken it away and I must pay a subscription to get this functionality back? Feeling cheated right now... This is just getting worse and worse.. now the guide won't allow starting of live TV. YOU ARE SLOWLY RUINING THIS APP AND THE MAIN SERVER WITH YOUR LATEST DESIGN DECISIONS.

Steven Thimsen

PVR now premiere feature only Even though I bought the app on several devices (phone and iPad), it now says that the DVR functionality requires a premiere subscription. This is ridiculous and an obvious bait and switch.

Joris Schaefers

Fantastic! Theres a bug when managing users. When viewing the settings of a user, clickin on 'edit user profile' will show a window where things seem to go very wrong. I hope this will be fixed soon. This minor inconvenience aside, Emby is the best and it works like a charm! :).

Vedran Zrilic

Casting to Chrome doesn't work Casting to Chrome doesn't work. Even though emby recognize and connects to Chrome when you click play it doesn't do anything. The only way to play video is to mirror video from Chrimecast application. If this was working app would get easy 5 stars.

Greg Medding

Offline downloads are broken. Works great streaming when on WiFi, but offline downloads are problematic. After launching an offline sync for an item I often find it the next day sitting at 50% (ready to download). From there it's random chance if the video will actually download or not. Worse still, I had it set to only download over WiFi, but it decided to download while I was on a long drive yesterday and used 1.4GB of data on my plan AND I STILL DIDN'T END UP WITH A WORKING VIDEO. It's sad the WiFi only setting can't be trusted.

Stephen Parker

Emby on phone When I first had emby you didn't have to pay for it but now you have to which is disgusting as last Sunday it was free to watch live tv on my phone for free and them when I came to watch live tv last night it would only give me 1 minute free time so please can you decide if it's free or have to pay one off fee thanks

User reviews

James Owen September 18, 2016

Steven Thimsen September 18, 2016

Joris Schaefers September 18, 2016

Vedran Zrilic September 19, 2016

Greg Medding September 19, 2016

Stephen Parker September 20, 2016

panda drew September 20, 2016

Used to be free? I used to be able to stream my media for free, but today I had to pay to be able to stream on my tablet. Still works great, but the main reason I use Emby is because it's free/cheap.

Mahmoud Hafez September 17, 2016

Couldn't Play any trailer ! Everything works well and as expected. The chromecast2 now is working as well. Though, I couldn't start any movie trailer at all; always shows a black screen then disconnect.

Frans Stofberg September 18, 2016

Fixed it Most problems are now sorted. Thanks 👍

David Ring September 17, 2016

Remote connection isn't even trying to connect. Waste of time.

Art Gutierrez September 20, 2016

Great app for Emby! Thanks

1827 Balmoral September 17, 2016

Sucks on Chromecast now Constantly have to disconnect and reconnect to get anything to work. Tapping play on an episode queues it up and I have to press play in the remote as well. Sometimes the remote doesn't show up so I have to disconnect and reconnect. Tablet goes to sleep and have to disconnect and reconnect. Disconnect modal doesn't scale properly so I have to guess at the button. Really thinking about firing SPMC back up.

Tomer Cohen September 13, 2016

Works well, some issues with keeping the Chromecast connection. Does the trick for me. Setup my TV with Chromecast and the Emby server OK my PC in the other room. Works like a charm

Emby Media September 16, 2016

Thanks for the feedback!

September 17, 2016

No ad free Version available Even after buying the pro Version still ad's for Emby Premiere are displayed within the app. Everything else works fine... But after paying it should be Ad free.

Jeffrey Justice Losey September 16, 2016

Looks great, but has performance issues Used to be really solid, but lately it stutters its way through everything, buffering every few seconds even on low quality settings, and that's with a top-quality dedicated server computer and otherwise flawlessly performing network.

Emby Media September 16, 2016

Thanks for the feedback, we'll do some additional testing on this.

Aaron McDaniel September 13, 2016

Fails to run on Nexus 6 with Android 7.0 Tried clearing cache and reinstalling. Still launches to a blank, dark screen.

Emby Media September 16, 2016

Hi, this is fixed for an upcoming release. It's also on the open beta now if you'd like it immediately. Thanks for the feedback.

Mohd Hozair Rizal September 16, 2016

Hi. I keep reading that you keep telling the other users that they can purchase a one off for the android app on your website. I have been searching for an hour on you website and FAQ but i cant find anything about the one off purchase. Can you please share the link to the one off purchase? Only then I revert my rating on this app

Emby Media September 16, 2016

Hi, the one-time purchase is inside the app. Just open the app, try to play a video. Then on the unlock screen tap "unlock with purchase".

Steffen Ørskov September 12, 2016

Broken again..... And again, After last update, playback is taking maybe a minute to start... I'm using nexus 5x. Also, the emby.media website keeps going down all the time. Doesn't seem to professional. But that out of the way, I love emby server as a library for Kodi. Site down again 02/01/2016

Emby Media September 16, 2016

Hi, last week our website had some outages due to our hosting provider being under attack. While it's unfortunate and we do apologize, it's something that's out of our control. Thank you for your patience.

Pablo Carrau September 12, 2016

Everything's great except for the Resume issues! If I'm watching a tv show or movie, I'll pause the playback and then turn off the screen. When I turn the screen back on and click the play button to resume, it starts back in the beginning and loses the previous position. I've tried this on multiple Android devices (OnePlus One, Galaxy S5, Galaxy Tab 10.1, Lenovo Tablet, etc). I get the same issue on all of them even though I'm running the very latest version of Emby on all. It's extremely frustrating :(

Emby Media September 16, 2016

Thanks for the feedback!

Chris Jarram September 13, 2016

Useless! ! Just crashes out whenever I try and play any video. Note 8.0. High End server works for all other devices.

tinord September 13, 2016

Terrible decision to take away the pull out drawer in favor of bottom tabs. This is a move away from material design. It takes up more screen real estate and is more prone to accidental clicks.

Emby Media September 16, 2016

Hi, did you know that Google is going in this direction with some of their apps as well?

Chris Harsent September 12, 2016

New UI is ooor Very disappointing changing the gui, old one looked cleaner and matched the server app.

Tom Greene September 11, 2016

Tabs?! Why did we go back to 2011? Who's hair brained idea was this?

Harry Park September 13, 2016

Not great Come on, no cover art unless you pay? Seriously? I get that it costs money for development, but I'd rather go with Plex.

Emby Media September 16, 2016

Hi, sorry to hear about this. What do you mean by cover art? You should be able to browse your library and view your artwork without any payment. Is this what you mean?

Kellen Lundry September 7, 2016

Missing some pretty important features Overall the app is decent. The emby project itself is great, but the android app is missing some key features for me. It has a sync offline feature that caches your media on your device. However, if you have no connection to your server then you cannot play it back with the emby app. You have to use a third party app to play the local files. Weird. It also has a podcast plugin, but has no way to auto download new episodes or mark them as watched.

Steven Casamento August 31, 2016

Chromecast issues Issues with chromecast when watching live tv via serverwmc. When switching channels, it will often bring up a blank screen.. works fine if mirroring. This version seems buggy.

winfuriated troopa September 6, 2016

Good but User to be able to exit the app from the home page regardless of navigation history. Now it forces you to go back through every screen you visited which is not ideal. Please revert or add an exit option.

David Martin September 9, 2016

Amazing App Great application, Really easy to use which is important to me as I have user accounts for my nephews and other family members setup and they find it easy to navigate. Works great and has plenty of features that come in handy for example the "Make available offline" feature which is great for road trips and holidays. Overall the developers have done an amazing job with this app and the rest of the Emby platform, I'd highly recommend Emby to anyone who's looking for a great full featured media platform.

Brett Heckle September 7, 2016

What a piece of shit Takes forever to load. Terrible interface and user ability. Total garbage all around

September 11, 2016

I love the permission feature of this application. It allows me to share my media folders using this feature

Emby Media September 16, 2016

Thanks for the feedback!

Andy Tullett August 28, 2016

Pretty stable these days. About the most reliable front end for the Emby platform, everything works as it should including external playback for those of us who are control freaks.

Branko Angebrant August 28, 2016

Latest versions improved so much. Finally works as it shoud.

Katharina Sabel August 31, 2016

Chromecast not working Can select device and TV gets "grabbed" but media doesn't play

Cees Portegies August 27, 2016

Good, but not perfect Works well in most cases. A few important problems are that navigation and loading of pages is slow: this has now been fixed and is decently fast. Music playback tends to get forgotten if ram usage gets a bit higher, but this seems to happening less and less .

Emby Media July 10, 2016

Thanks for the feedback. We are continuing to work on improving the performance of the app.

GRomero x September 23, 2016

Do not update !! Update will NOT allow some movies to play on android devices (transcoding issue ) I tought it was a problem in my end and did a whole bunch of testing and yet nothing .get the application online .. application in playstore v2.7.55 is corropted .. Original feedback :If u have a low end NAS/Server./Internet don't blame the Application specifically if the settings on your devices are wrong. Works better than a pay stream provider . Thanks for the Patches and updates.. Great Job .

Emby Media July 10, 2016

Thanks for the feedback!

Bill Brunner August 26, 2016

Awesome If you have emby set up, this is a must have. If you're a cheap b***h, develop your own streaming server and enjoy, otherwise support the devs and pay for premium.

Mike Munoz August 28, 2016

Still needs work The browser version is the only version that works for me. I would happily pay for it if it worked. The Chromecast and Amazon fire tv versions never played reliably. Plex works perfectly on Amazon fire tv and it's free but I would really prefer to use emby. I can't even test the Amazon fire tv version anymore to see if it's been fixed. I'm not going to pay for a broken app and hope it's fixed someday. Why is the Chromecast version free, but not the Amazon fire tv version?

Chrisada Sookdhis August 24, 2016

Only audio Since the August update, videos do not show up and I only get audio.

Marcel Botha August 26, 2016

Good. Good.

Emby Media December 16, 2015

Hi, if you're upgrading this should not have happened. Please email apps@emby.media and we can resolve this. Thanks.

Brent and Cathy Fugett August 20, 2016

Yes!!!!! Last update brings performance I've waited for This has always been a great product but has been lacking in the performance area. With this last update mobile performance has gotten a badly needed greasing of the skids with a nice skin of Teflon for good measure!! Outstanding product. Thanks for the hard work!!

Emby Media September 16, 2016

Thanks for the feedback!