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+author: samuel-lbryian
+title: 'LBRY Fireworks For Android Works Like Fire'
+date: '2020-01-08 13:13:13'
+cover: 'fireworks.jpg'
+category: update
+---
+
+## Fireworks release of LBRY for Android is LIVE in the Play Store
+Today, LBRY releases LBRY Fireworks, which brings improved search, rich text support, a better video play experience, and more.
+
+[Download from Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.lbry.browser) or [direct download](http://lbry.com/releases/lbry-android.apk).
+
+![fireworks](https://spee.ch/@lbrynews:0/fireworks-android.jpeg)
+
+Fireworks upgrades performance and includes a number of bug fixes and other usability improvements. 
+
+### More about LBRY Fireworks
+
+- Faster search experience with more relevant results
+- Basic rendering of rich text, including things like this very post
+- Audio and video content pages are more responsive, with a larger touch area and autoplay for free content
+- First-run experience revamped, account creation less strongly encouraged
+- Added a purchase confirmation to paid content
+- Added view and follower counts to file and channel pages
+- Tipping interface improved and channels can now be tipped directly from their pages
+- Improved display of transient messages, like rewards
+- Renamed "Subscriptions" to "Following" in the navigation menu
+- Updated to LBRY SDK 0.50.1 for improved stability and performance
+- Fixes an issue with subscribed channel content not loading in some scenarios
+- Fixes issues with synchronization of tags and subscriptions across sessions
+
+For the full release notes, see both versions [0.12.1](https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-android/releases/tag/0.12.1) and [0.12.2](https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-android/releases/tag/0.12.2)
+
+While it lasts, grab some LBC with reward code `fireworks-2020`!