It has been a very long time coming, however Valve has lastly made some main updates to the Steam app for Android, with it lastly out there on iOS and as a standalone APK. The adjustments embrace enhancements to the UI and underlying framework, in addition to some cool new options.
“We have fully revamped the Steam Cell app,” the Steam Google play ‘what’s new’ part reads. “You’ll nonetheless be capable to browse the shop, get Steam Guard codes, and make sure trades—with additions like QR code scanning for PC sign up, smarter notifications, a brand new Library view with distant downloads, and customizable tabs.”
Together with Apple telephone customers now lastly being able to entry their account on the go, everybody’s been gifted the flexibility to log into a number of accounts within the cellular app. One other nice enchancment is the flexibility to handle gadget entry out of your telephone, so you’ll be able to be sure to’re not nonetheless logged in in your ex-best good friend’s machine, or in case you get hacked when you’re out.
You may as well use the app to obtain Steam video games to your PC remotely, so you’ll be able to have them prepared for you whenever you get house from work. You’ll be able to even customise the tabs now located on the backside of the UI, and personalise which web page you see as your homepage.
I have been having a look on the app myself this morning, and the design adjustments are startlingly evident. The UI seems loads higher than it did earlier than, and has much less of that “we constructed this within the ’90s utilizing HTML” really feel. The actual fact now you can level your telephone at your PC and use a QR code to log in, like with Discord and WhatsApp, is such a large usability win. It is particularly helpful if, like me, your companion whose machine you intermittently have to log into to share your library is utilizing some obscure keyboard format (opens in new tab).
One in all my most important points with the app, nevertheless—and somebody please appropriate me if I am doing one thing flawed—is, whenever you’re scrolling by means of an extended checklist of video games and resolve to click on one, utilizing your telephone’s again button will land you proper again on the prime of the checklist once more, or in a completely completely different part. It is a related case with Valve’s Steam Deck, in that the Steam OS will ship you again to the highest nearly at random, and it is such a ache to scroll again right down to the place you had been at within the checklist.
Yesterday’s Steam Information Hub put up (opens in new tab) has extra particulars on the right way to take advantage of out of the app refresh, and for now it is good to know that Valve’s deal with making the Steam Deck extra person pleasant had bled throughout the board.
Subsequent up, Valve says it will likely be engaged on bringing QR sign up to the Steam Deck, fidgeting with new sorts of notifications, and making it doable to vary gadget authorisation within the Steam Shopper, in addition to the browser.
