Our team has discovered early indications that Party Stream will be coming to Android in Stadia 4.33, which is now rolling out via the Google Play Store, as well as a potential impending Ubisoft promotion.
Regarding APK Insight: We’ve decompiled the most recent version of an app that Google put on the Play Store in our APK Insight post. When we decompile these files—known as APKs for Android apps—we can find numerous lines of code that allude to potential future features. Remember that Google might or might not ever deploy these features, and our understanding of what they are might be limited. However, we’ll try to give those that are nearly finished a chance to demonstrate how they’ll seem if they do ship. Read on with that in mind.
SOCIAL MEDIA FOR ANDROID Party Stream, a new tool that Stadia revealed last month, makes it incredibly simple to share your games with pals. To allow everyone in your Stadia party to watch, instead of having to launch a YouTube livestream and share the URL with your friends, you can now simply enable Party Stream.
At debut, only the online app had access to that feature; there were no Party Stream alternatives for Android. The Ask to Watch button in the party menu should prompt your friend to start streaming if they choose to do so on the viewers’ end. Currently, asking a friend who is streaming on an Android device to stop playing simply prompts them to recommend you ask them verbally.
Party Stream may be coming to the Android app shortly, according to new Ask to Watch-related code found in Stadia 4.33.
AcceptAskToWatchAction. AcceptAskToWatchAction.ShareGameStream
As of right now, there are no indications that Party Stream will be expanded to include Stadia, such as the ability to manually turn on a stream for your group. Instead, it appears that you will at least be able to activate the stream in response to a friend’s request.
PROMOTIONAL TRIAL FOR UBISOFT Stadia 4.33 also adds additional code and text pertaining to Ubisoft elsewhere in the upgrade. You may now link your Stadia account to your Ubisoft membership, which enables you to stream all of Ubisoft’s Stadia titles for free without the need for a Stadia Pro subscription.
It appears that Ubisoft is getting ready to give a longer free trial of the service based on recently added text. The service would allegedly be free till October 10 according to the promotional language. Ubisoft often only provides new customers with one-week trials.
Up to October 10th, try Ubisoft for free.
Since that is precisely one month away from this Saturday’s Ubisoft Forward presentation, we posit that the publisher might make a statement on a month-long free play period during the occasion.
As you might anticipate, it appears you’ll need to actually subscribe to Ubisoft in order to take advantage of the month-long promotional trial. You should be able to cancel at any point after the trial starts, according to other material in the app.
Your accounts are connected. Start your Ubisoft trial by subscribing.
But as always, nothing about this is official until it’s published in the app or made public.
WORDING CHANGES FOR DATA USE Another interesting fact is that Stadia has modified the way it talks about how much data it uses. Depending on your Stadia Pro status and what your device can support, you can select from a few different resolution options on the Performance tab of Stadia’s settings. From may reach to is normally under, the projected data use for each of these alternatives has been slightly modified as follows:
Before:
12.6 gigabytes of data could be used every hour.
After:
Usually, less than 12.6 gigabytes of data are used per hour.
This is probably only a semantic issue, but it also leaves open the possibility that in some circumstances a Stadia session will use more data than anticipated.
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