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.
• Player has to be re-activated if it was previously downgraded to any version inferior to 7.0.14

Features Not Yet Supported in Player Next Gen

Assets:

• YouTube Asset
  • 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
• In-app Web Browser 
  
  • No Virtual keyboard when using input forms on BrightSign devices
• 3D Model Asset
• Linear Gauge
• Webcam Asset 
  • Only one resolution will be displayed when using more than one Webcam asset with different resolutions in the same scene
  • Delay property is not supported
  • Android-based devices do not support multiple Webcam Assets in the same scene
  • Using both Front and Back configured Webcam assets at the same time
• 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 the '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

Experience properties, triggers, actions

• 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)
• Effects
  • Samsung Kiosk and Samsung SSSP devices only supports Brightness and Grayscale effects
• 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

• Data Tracking 
  
  • Experience Started and Experience Stopped events will not be recorded when using Web Player
• .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 that the scope of credential key rights is limited to only what 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)
• On the web
  • Any platform
    • iOS (Safari) limitation: Videos cannot be triggered to play using Triggers and Actions. User input must be performed on the video
• COMING SOON: As an app (Progressive Web App - aka PWA)
  • Windows (via Chrome or Edge)
  • iOS (via Chrome or Edge)
  • Android (via Chrome)
  • MacOS (via Chrome - preferred - or Safari)
  • ChromeOS