Player Next Gen (PLN) shares the limitations of the current-gen Player running on all platforms but Windows (such as our limitations on Android and the iPad).

The list below captures limitations exclusive to PLN.

Features Never to be Supported

Certain Intuiface capabilities available in Player on Windows will never be available in Player Next Gen

• (Microsoft) Deep Zoom asset
• Any JavaScript-based Interface Asset.
  All interface assets are being rewritten using TypeScript.

Features Not Yet Supported in Player Next Gen

Assets:

• YouTube Asset has the following limitations:
  • Not supported on Samsung Kiosk nor on other Samsung Tizen based devices
  • Video Speed property cannot be changed when running on BrightSign devices
  • Will not be able to interact with Video controls when YouTube is nested inside the Carousel collection
• Web Browser (including in-app web browser)
• 3D Model Asset
• Linear Gauge
• Webcam Asset
• Document Asset - Book Style  
• Document
  • Does not display scrollbars
  • Does not scale in size
  • Not supported on Tizen based devices such as Samsung Kiosk
  • Not supported on Web Player
  • Distant PDF (from an URL as source) is not supported on iOS based devices
  • Does not support 'Show curtain shadows" property

Collections:

• Ken Burns
• Map

Asset and Collection features

• Auto Scroll
• Drag to Open (an Ordered Collection property)
• Drag & Drop triggers
• Collection virtualization (items out of view are still loaded in memory)
• Loading indicator for Collections

Keyboard

• Virtual Keyboard
• Keyboard Triggers

Experience properties, triggers, actions

• Exit action
• Web Triggers
• Gradient colors
• Call URL
• Launch Application action
• Drawing Tool
• Creating Snapshots
• Multiple Data Feeds in a single collection
• Scene to Scene navigation to Scenes containing special characters in the name

Expressive Features:

• Geocoding - Latitude/Longitude
• Device Accelerometer
• Device Orientation
• Shake (to quit)
• Excel Interface Asset Limitations
  • Saving edits to Excel spreadsheets via the Excel Interface Asset
    • Edits are only retained in memory for the current session
  • Will not display content after 10 empty rows.
• Pinboard
  • Pin container
  • Animations
• Scroll Collection (extended zone auto-recalculation)
• Collections
  • Show Icons (property)
  • Show Curtain Shadow (property)
  • Elasticity (property)
• Asset Shadows
• Button non-flat rendering (Button asset will always be flat)
• Text Asset
  • Set Font Color will not be animated
• Rich Text, the following actions are not supported:
  • Set Font
  • Set Font Color
  • Set Font Size
  • Set Font Style

Auxiliary

• .NET DLL-based Interface Asset
• API Explorer
  • Currently, the Web API response must be JSON-formatted; XML-formatted responses are not yet supported
• Philips HUE Lights (Interface Asset)
• Share and Deploy Console
  • Scheduling
  • Batch Player Activation
  • Player Launch Preferences
  • Player Tags
  • Player Name
  • Snapshot (live tracking in Share and Deploy Console) for iOS and Android
• Player Services
  • Email (share by email)
  • File (share by filesystem)
  • Print
  • Sockets (unable to accept remote actions)
• Exclusive to Player on the web: Credential key obfuscation
  • Credential keys - either those generated by Intuiface or those used for third-party service authentication - are not currently obfuscated and thus can be extracted using browser-based developer tools. We recommend you ensure the scope of credential key rights is minimized to only that which is necessary for your running experience.

Unsupported / Supported platforms

Unsupported Platforms

• In-venue Player
  • iOS
  • ChromeOS
  • LG WebOS

Supported Platforms

Player Next Gen is currently supported on the following Platforms: 

• In-venue Player
  
  • Windows (via Composer's Play Mode)
    
  • Android
  • BrightSign
  • Samsung SSP Tizen (including Samsung Kiosk)
• As an app (PWA / Progressive Web App)
  • Windows (via Chrome or Edge)
  • iOS (via Chrome or Edge)
  • Android (via Chrome)
  • MacOS (via Chrome - preferred - or Safari)
  • ChromeOS
• On the web
  • Any platform
    • iOS (Safari) limitation: Video cannot be triggered to play using Triggers and Actions. User input must be performed on the video