Twitch TV Android app

simtwitch

I just got it on my new phone (S3), and I'm not very impressed.

Once the streams do start the framerate, quality and everything is just fine. I just wish the streams did start then, as intended. Most of them just load for 10 sec and then give up. It doesn't seem to follow any particular pattern either, like amount of viewers on the stream, its location or whatever. The app is just being highly selective on which streams that will play and that won't.

I've completely gone over to accessing the streams through alternate sites, such as Own3d and MLG's official streams for instance. And those work 100% every time, so it's pretty easy to rule out my phone or anything that simply isn't related to Twitch TV. But as fine as it is accessing the streams this way, I'd rather see this app worked properly instead of seeing Twitch just letting it die, cause it would just be much safer and smoother.

If anyone has any ideas on how to improve things I'd be very much impressed, but I'm not really expecting anything. Just wanna hear if any Twitch TV official has anything useful to say, mainly if there are any updates planned. When was the last time this app was updated btw?

PIPe

There is a lot of Android devices, and it's not an easy task to keep the app updated to support every device. Hopefully there will be an update in the future.

Have you tried watching the streams from your browser?

snakechomp

I've been having problems using the twitch.tv mobile app on my google nexus 7. I see similar behavior as the original poster. The stream will claim to load at first but will never display any video or sound and there is no network traffic. Eventually the tablet will enter sleep mode. The same stream works fine in a real browser with flash.

I experiment with this happens and find that sometimes only certain resolutions exhibit this behavior. Today, the specific stream I was trying to watch (nhatn) would only work in 226p from the mobile app, but all resolutions including 720p work from my desktop browser. I assume there must be an issue with the twitch.tv backend system that is transcoding the stream into a format that the mobile app supports.

I happen to have a different android device which is on 4.0.x instead of 4.1 but it exhibits the same issues with this stream, so it isn't the fault of the mobile app itself or the android version.

immemories

I've been having problems using the twitch.tv mobile app on my google nexus 7. I see similar behavior as the original poster. The stream will claim to load at first but will never display any video or sound and there is no network traffic. Eventually the tablet will enter sleep mode. The same stream works fine in a real browser with flash.

I experiment with this happens and find that sometimes only certain resolutions exhibit this behavior. Today, the specific stream I was trying to watch (nhatn) would only work in 226p from the mobile app, but all resolutions including 720p work from my desktop browser. I assume there must be an issue with the twitch.tv backend system that is transcoding the stream into a format that the mobile app supports.

I happen to have a different android device which is on 4.0.x instead of 4.1 but it exhibits the same issues with this stream, so it isn't the fault of the mobile app itself or the android version.

Same problem on my asus infinity tablet :-(

saratoga3

The Twitch app is really screwed up on Jelly Bean.   It used to work well enough on ICS, but I get random black screens on JB.  Plus its almost impossible to get 720p streams working.  Often even 480p simply refuses to load.

I realize there are a lot of Android devices, but a Nexus 7 only costs $200.  You guys need to get one and figure out whats wrong with your app.